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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...