
Erik Piepenburg
Writer at Freelance
Contributor at The New York Times
Writer and horror columnist @nytimes. DINING OUT, my book about 🌈 restaurants, comes out in 2025 from Hachette. Cleveland native. Very gay.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Erik Piepenburg
This month's picks include a robot revenge drama and a supernatural detective story. Stream it on Max. The less you know about Drew Hancock's whip smart thriller-comedy, the harder its sinister detours will hit. At first glance, Iris and Josh (Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid) are a model couple. But Iris isn't just Josh's girlfriend: She's also his emotional support companion robot (and sex partner) who is programmed to feel anger, guilt, sadness, pain - "an imitation of a life," as Josh tells her.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Erik Piepenburg
Based on a video game, this movie is done in by mediocre monsters and muddled time loops. Until DawnDirected by David F. Sandberg Drama, HorrorR1h 43mFind TicketsWhen you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Watching someone play a video game that they never let you play is a singular kind of boring.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Erik Piepenburg |Graham Dickie
A big opening scene that took about two-and-a-half years to perfect plunges theatergoers into the sci-fi world of the hit Netflix series. A big opening scene that took about two-and-a-half years to perfect plunges theatergoers into the sci-fi world of the hit Netflix series. Credit... The cold open: In television, it's a scene that begins an episode before the title sequence, often without leading characters but almost always with foreshadowing hooks to confound or set a mood.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Erik Piepenburg
This month's picks include everyday evildoers, Indonesian demons and a smug Brazilian serial killer. Rent or buy it on most major platforms. For most of its two-hour run time, Antonio Méndez Esparza's slow-burn thriller doesn't feel like a horror movie. There's no gore, evil spirits or gorgons. Yet, as it follows a middle-aged woman who loses her grip on reality, the film chillingly embodies Sartre's observation that hell is other people.
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2 months ago |
nytimes.com | Erik Piepenburg
Stream it on Peacock. F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922) is a foundational vampire shocker that still shoots ice shards through my veins after repeated viewings. Robert Eggers's chillingly gothic reimagining of that silent film leaves my blood more lukewarm, offering too much romance and not enough monster for my taste.
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