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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.

Beats

With distinctive black-and-white cinematography, masterful tracking shots, and an incredible ability to capture dancing bodies, Beats makes us feel as though we too are at the rave.

By |June 26th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks, U. K.|0 Comments

7500

A hijacking drama with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a pilot of an airplane taken over by terrorists.

By |June 18th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Thriller|0 Comments

The Short History of the Long Road

A teenager copes with the loss of her father and strives to survive on her own during a cross-country trek.

By |June 16th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Road Trip|0 Comments

Judy & Punch

The script walks a sometimes uneasy line between genuine darkness and a Monty Python–esque embrace of anachronism and the bizarre.

By |June 4th, 2020|Australian, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Lucky Grandma

An expert and affecting blend of genres (thriller, comedy, gangster film).

By |May 29th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks|0 Comments

12 Hour Shift | Tribeca Film Festival 2020

A dark screwball comedy set in a seedy Arkansas hospital in the late 1990s.

By |May 15th, 2020|Festivals, Tribeca Film Festival|0 Comments

The Half of It | Tribeca Film Festival 2020

It’s perhaps an understatement to say this teen comedy yields to clichés. Yet, it avoids stereotypes and subverts a few classic tropes too.

By |May 15th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Festivals, Teen|0 Comments

Cowboys | Tribeca Film Festival 2020

The drama’s greatest strength is that writer/director Anna Kerrigan opts for nuance.

By |May 11th, 2020|Family drama, Festivals|0 Comments

True History of the Kelly Gang

Striking, at times exhilarating, but ultimately uneven, the adaptation of Peter Carey's novel is a fascinating addition to the depictions of the outlaw Ned Kelly.

By |April 23rd, 2020|Book adaptation, Crime, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments