Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” challenged viewers either to embrace Dustin Hoffman’s passive mathematician as a man of nonviolent principle or deride him as cowardly and hypocritical. Rod Lurie’s remake ...
Sam Peckinpah's 1971 bloodbath, "Straw Dogs," starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George as a citified couple terrorized by rural thugs, remains a singularly troubling masterpiece. Condemned for its ...
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 ...