“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook With the arrival of the 1970s came a nationwide re-evaluation of the ideal “viewing audience” in ...
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