I can think of no other film which screws violence up into so tight a knot of terror that one begins to feel that civilisation is crumbling before one's eyes. Go to ...

Director Rod Lurie's remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 original hit theaters on Friday. By THR Staff Straw Dogs Film Still - P 2011 The film centers on a Los Angeles screenwriter David (Marsden) and his ...

Rod Lurie shares four secrets to taking on a well-loved film and making it your own. By Rod Lurie One of the first things that Clint Culpepper, president of Screen Gems, said to me after giving me the ...

"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, ...

Straw Dogs caused something of a stir in 1971 thanks to its scenes of extreme violence. 40 years later and director Rod Lurie replaced Sam Peckinpah's leads Dustin Hoffman and Susan George with James ...

Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...

Rod Lurie, director of the politically charged dramas Deterrence, The Contender and Nothing But the Truth, has spent plenty of time in the hot seat. But the controversies over those movies are nothing ...