Straw Dogs Articles

Marion Cotillard, Contagion THE LION KING 3D to Gross $35 Million?: Box Office Last weekend's top movie, Steven Soderbergh's disease & hysteria drama Contagion, was down to no. 2 on Friday, Sept. 16, taking in an estimated $4.63 million as per Box Office Mojo. Despite all the buzz and an 86% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' top critics, Cannes Film Festival Best Director winner Nicolas [...]

The Lion King According to early, rough estimates found in The Hollywood Reporter, the 3D'ed version of Disney's 1994 megahit The Lion King will top the North American box office this weekend, Sept. 16-18. Partly thanks to 3D surcharges, The Lion King is expected to gross around $15 million, thus taking over the weekend box-office crown from Steven Soderbergh's all-star epi-drama Contagion. When it first [...]

STRAW DOGS Review: Part III In his defense, Clover is not the only critic who has butchered their interpretation of the film. The infamous Pauline Kael loved Straw Dogs, but mislabeled it "fascist," as if a band of local loonies are the equivalent of a nationwide junta, while many of her female acolytes condemned both the film and the director for "misogyny." Even the powerful [...]

Dustin Hoffman in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs STRAW DOGS Review: Part II The ending is famed, and justly so. In the car, Henry says, "I don't know my way home" David smiles and says, "That's okay, I don't either." If only the rest of the film had the subtlety and enigmatic poesy of that ending, Straw Dogs would truly be the masterpiece its acolytes proclaim. [...]