Opening Weekend: Driving It Home

Ryan Gosling drives. James Marsden won’t allow violence against his house. And no one knows how Sarah Jessica Parker does it.

Re-Animated: Straw Dogs for Sale – Now with Skarsgård!

I’m not one of these vehement purists who believe that movies are sacrosanct, bemoaning any and every “blasphemous” attempt to re-make/re-model the movies of days gone by, not even when said “days gone by” were fairly recent (read: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Sure, there are some movies that, for one reason or another, I don’t think should be re-made–Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Easy Rider, Jaws, etc.–but I’ll live if they are. That being said, I’m very interested in seeing the upcoming re-make of Sam Peckinpah‘s controversial classic, Straw Dogs.