Sam Peckinpah

The stereotypical Southern rednecks indulging in uncivilized behavior in the remake of "Straw Dogs" seem like they grew up watching the original 1972 movie. They also seem likely to have tossed back a few beers while watching "Deliverance," released...

David Zelag Goodman, a screenwriter best known for such 1970s films as the controversial psychological thriller "Straw Dogs" and "Lovers and Other Strangers," a comedy that earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 81. Goodman died Monday at an...

The Three Musketeers in 2-D and 3-D Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson are the titular trio, made a quartet by the addition of the hot-headed D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) and facing off against baddies played by Christoph Waltz and Orlando...

“Killer Elite” may have nearly the same title as a 1975 Sam Peckinpah film, but this version is based on a Ranulph Fiennes spies-and-assassins novel and stars Jason Statham and Robert DeNiro. DeNiro's the former boss who is captured, Statham...

Poet Scott Wannberg, who was a significant figure in Los Angeles poetry, has died....

Equal measures smug and savage, Rod Lurie's infuriating remake of Sam Peckinpah's vengeance thriller “Straw Dogs” still packs a visceral punch. An exploitation picture built on redneck cliches and big city liberal outrage, it's not all bad....

“Drive” is winning almost universal critical praise as it opens this weekend. Overwhelmingly positive reviews. It's cool, it's edgy, exciting and mesmerizing. It's not a masterpiece, but it is a very entertaining existential action picture....

From the lofty perch of this magazine or that one, most notably The New Yorker, Pauline Kael presided over the Golden Age of Film Criticism, producing essay length appreciations of individual films, filmmakers and actors, or bemoaning the state of...

Len Lesser Veteran character actor Len Lesser, 88, a veteran character actor best known for his recurring role in the 1990s as Uncle Leo on the hit NBC-TV comedy "Seinfeld," died Wednesday in Burbank, publicist Laura Stegman said. He had pneumonia and...

Sam Peckinpah's culture-clash revenge thriller, a meek educated “modern” man faces threats to his manhood by the rough, redneck locals who figure he can't “kee” his woman, gets updated a trifle in this remake. James Marsden and...

Dates are changing, studios are firming up release plans, figuring out what will actually be finished in time for this or that target date, in some cases. Films will be picked up at Sundance and find their way into theaters. Documentaries will find a...

I've always had a hankering for motorcycles. I've had many fantasies of riding a Harley-Davidson adorned with buckskin saddlebags, careening across the blue highways of America. I've even visualized what I would wear. Somewhere above, an orchestra would...