It’s been 40 years since the original Straw Dogs starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George was released, and in the updated version being released tonight, rural England has been replaced with the ...

When director/screenwriter Rod Lurie and his producing partner, Marc Frydman, decided to revisit Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 film Straw Dogs, starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, the goal ...

Straw Dogs star Susan George is to play a ruthless medieval matriarch in a new British movie chronicling the Battle of Hastings. The actress has joined Oliver! star Mark Lester in 1066. She'll play ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. “Straw Dogs” is a meditation on masculinity and societal mores in the guise of an ...

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 ...

Three new clips from the Blu-ray of the original Sam Peckinpah classic Straw Dogs have arrived, and we’ve got all of ’em right here waiting for you to feast upon! Dig it! How far will one man go to ...

Film :: Preview The Herron Gallery Film Series, every Monday this semester at 7:30 p.m., features a buffet of older films for your viewing and discussing pleasure. A good way to recover from the ...

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 ...

Like the current French shocker Irr鶥rsible, Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 shocker turns on an ugly rape that leads to even uglier consequences. Reaching DVD March 25 on a two-disc set with many extras, the ...