Century 10 Rated R for vulgar language, violence, gore, sexual situations, rape, strong adult themes 109 minutes 3.5 out of 4 stars "Straw Dogs" is an artful provocation - a meditation on masculinity ...

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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 ...

"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, ...

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 ...

This new version of "Straw Dogs" is a reasonably close adaptation of the 1971 film by Sam Peckinpah. Change the location from England to Mississippi, change a mathematician into a screenwriter, keep ...

In an ancient Chinese tradition, straw dogs were used as sacrifices in hallowed rituals. These objects were held in high regard during the ceremony, but afterwards thrown into the street and forgotten ...

It is knee-jerk to decry the remake, but to the credit of writer-director Rod Lurie, who has adapted Sam Peckinpah’s U.K.-set 1971 film into this U.S.-set 2011 version, Straw Dogs brings to ...