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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.

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