Jack Sparrow being pepper-sprayed. Officer Rosario Herr

Straw Dogs was directed by Rod Lurie, known for The Contender (2000). He is an ex Los Angeles film critic who took on quite a challenge directing a remake of the original Straw Dogs from 1971 which starred Dustin Hoffman. Surfing around the web I found t

When Dustin Hoffman’s David Sumner announces at the end of the 1971 version of “Straw Dogs” that he “got ‘em all,” he says it with a sense of triumph. We know he has changed from a man who fled America because he was too spineless to take a stand on the

Thats the first indication that Lurie is trying to differentiate his film from Peckinpahs, a

Many a teleplay for The Twilight Zone threatened atomic Armageddon, and though Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens nukes New York in the opening shots of his latest thriller, he finds more inspiration in the horrors of human nature as seen in the old TV sho

As befits someone with jail time hanging over his head, Roman Polanski does his best work in close quarters. From Knife in the Water, to Repulsion, to The Tenant and The Pianist, he's a master of claustrophobic close encounters, and as such has a good ti