Rod Lurie shares four secrets to taking on a well-loved film and making it your own. By Rod Lurie One of the first things that Clint Culpepper, president of Screen Gems, said to me after giving me the ...

Helmer Sam Peckinpah once described his unsettling thriller "Straw Dogs" as "the story of a bad marriage." Deliberately provocative and astonishingly multi-layered, pic reps a pivotal step in the ...

“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 1971 classic, writer-director Rod Lurie ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though perhaps more studied than loved, Sam Peckinpah‘s 1971 “Straw Dogs” was both a product of its tumultuous time and a film filled with provocative ideas, however upsetting and anachronistic those ...