“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 ...

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

This new version of "Straw Dogs" is a reasonably close adaptation of the 1971 film by Sam Peckinpah. Change the location from England to Mississippi, change a mathematician into a screenwriter, keep ...

Director Rod Lurie’s remake of the 1971 Sam Peckinpah classic "Straw Dogs" has all the grit of the original, but none of its nuance. This go-around stars James Marsden ("X-Men") as a pacifistic ...

No, Lurie doesn’t compete with that. Instead, every decision he makes domesticates Straw Dogs. Peckinpah, himself a stranger in a strange land, turned Cornishmen into Apache-style “savages”, with ...

As a remake of the 1971 Pekinpah classic, Rod Lurie’s Straw Dogs serves to expose layers of polarity deeply rooted within modern American culture. Newlyweds David Sumner (James Marsden) and Amy (the ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - James Marsden will star in the reimagining of the 1971 thriller "Straw Dogs" that is being written and directed by Rod Lurie. The new "Straw Dogs," from Screen Gems, ...

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"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, ...

Film :: Preview The Herron Gallery Film Series, every Monday this semester at 7:30 p.m., features a buffet of older films for your viewing and discussing pleasure. A good way to recover from the ...