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About Andrew Plimpton

Andrew Plimpton is a writer living in Western Massachusetts. His plays have been performed at The Tank in New York City; his fiction has appeared in Silo. He was a reader for The Paris Review from 2019 to 2021, and has written for Film Forward since 2018.

Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds

Though the matters are weighty and the content complex, co-director Werner Herzog never forgets his sense of humor.

By |November 12th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks|0 Comments

18 to Party

The year is 1984, the place is upstate New York, school has just started, and a group of eighth graders are waiting to get inside a nightclub.

By |November 5th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Teen|0 Comments

The Donut King

A story of triumph and compassion against great odds.

By |October 30th, 2020|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Midnight in Paris

Prom week 2012 at Michigan's Flint Northern High School.

By |October 23rd, 2020|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Shithouse

One of the better and more convincing love stories to recently emerge that also succeeds where the majority of college-set films fail.

By |October 16th, 2020|Comedy, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

The Racer

Portraying the more unsavory aspects of competitive bicycle racing, the movie reimagines a doping scandal involving the 1998 Tour de France.

By |October 9th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Sports|1 Comment

Save Yourselves!

Though disaster films might feel a little too real right now, this one is on the opposite end of the spectrum from Contagion.

By |October 2nd, 2020|Comedy|0 Comments

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Charlie Kaufman finds yet another vehicle for exploring identity, longing, denial, and missed opportunities while creating a movie that is a maze-like series of corridors.

By |September 24th, 2020|Book adaptation, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

The Nest

A harrowing, deeply affecting story of flawed people in a troubled time, and one of the year’s strongest films thus far.

By |September 17th, 2020|Family drama, Top Picks|0 Comments