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About Andrew Plimpton

Andrew Plimpton is a writer based in Western Massachusetts. His fiction has appeared in Heavy Feather Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Write Launch, and other venues. His plays have been performed at The Tank in New York City, and he has written for Film-Forward since 2018.

Sequin in a Blue Room

A teenager's life stops and starts relative to his sexual encounters in this intense film driven by the insatiability of his libido.

By |May 20th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, GLBT|0 Comments

RK/RKAY

The interplay between reality and illusion, namely that of a filmmaker and his invented characters, is the theme of this laid-back comedy.

By |May 13th, 2021|Comedy, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Limbo

On a sparsely populated island off the northwest coast of Scotland, a group of refugees wait for approval of their asylum requests.

By |April 30th, 2021|U. K.|0 Comments

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

What this documentary does beautifully is remind us what makes Sesame Street unique.

By |April 23rd, 2021|Documentary|0 Comments

Gunda

The actions in this nontraditional documentary are outwardly simple: viewers observe animals on a farm and in nature living their lives.

By |April 15th, 2021|Documentary|0 Comments

Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad

With a lot of help from friends, a family negotiates with their captive father's kidnappers in this incredibly suspenseful documentary.

By |March 24th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks|0 Comments

Quo Vadis, Aida?

As tragic, horrifying, and bracing as it should be.

By |March 12th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks, War|0 Comments

Boogie

A coming-of-age story and a sports drama, from the point of view of a Chinese American basketball prodigy.

By |March 4th, 2021|Sports, Teen|0 Comments

The Father

For most of the drama, Anthony Hopkins is at his very best.

By |February 26th, 2021|Family drama, Top Picks|0 Comments