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 ...

Century 10 Rated R for vulgar language, violence, gore, sexual situations, rape, strong adult themes 109 minutes 3.5 out of 4 stars "Straw Dogs" is an artful provocation - a meditation on masculinity ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...