“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 ...

As a remake of the 1971 Pekinpah classic, Rod Lurie’s Straw Dogs serves to expose layers of polarity deeply rooted within modern American culture. Newlyweds David Sumner (James Marsden) and Amy (the ...

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