Director Rod Lurie's remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 original hit theaters on Friday. By THR Staff Straw Dogs Film Still - P 2011 The film centers on a Los Angeles screenwriter David (Marsden) and his ...

“Straw Dogs” is an artful provocation — a meditation on masculinity and societal mores in the guise of an explosive thriller. While remaking Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 classic, writer-director ...

Times have changed since the release of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs in 1971. “Bloody Sam,” known for The Wild Bunch and other über-violent films — at least by the standards of the day — claimed in his ...

Two of the most violent films from 1971 will screen at the Castro Theatre: Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” and Sam Peckinpah’s more disturbing “Straw Dogs,” which screens in a 35mm IB Tech ...

Rod Lurie, director of the politically charged dramas Deterrence, The Contender and Nothing But the Truth, has spent plenty of time in the hot seat. But the controversies over those movies are nothing ...

Remakes are aplenty in this day and age, but like Eli Roth said, you can appreciate some of them. The newest is a remake the 1971 thriller Straw Dogs, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Dustin ...

It felt great to review carefree “Yellow Submarine” last week — so many happy feels and embarrassing sing-along moments — so the question is: What happily-ever-after movie is next? The answer is ...

The setting has been moved from the British countryside to the swamps of Mississippi, and the lead actors got better looking, but Rod Lurie's "Straw Dogs" is essentially identical to the 1971 Sam ...

Taken on its own terms as a nasty tale of how a bunch of rough rednecks pester and brutalize a nice city couple until the latter summon up the grit to turn the tables on them, "Straw Dogs" amounts to ...

After last week's downright ugly box-office, things pick up considerably this week for movie fans. The fantastic documentary "Project Nim" lands, for example, as does the Shreveport-shot remake of ...

According to Rod Lurie, his new “Straw Dogs” is not Sam Peckinpah‘s 1971 “Straw Dogs.” At the Sept. 15 screening and afterparty at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in Gotham, Lurie quoted a vintage Playboy ...