No, Lurie doesn’t compete with that. Instead, every decision he makes domesticates Straw Dogs. Peckinpah, himself a stranger in a strange land, turned Cornishmen into Apache-style “savages”, with ...

The 2011 remake of the controversial Sam Peckinpah-helmed “Straw Dogs”, starring Dustin Hoffman, had pretty big shoes to fill. While not as famous as other Hoffman films, such as “Marathon Man,” “The ...