Straw Dogs caused something of a stir in 1971 thanks to its scenes of extreme violence. 40 years later and director Rod Lurie replaced Sam Peckinpah's leads Dustin Hoffman and Susan George with James ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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, ...