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SUNDANCE 2022 | KATE BOSWORTH in “Bring On The Dancing Horses”

From opening night at Sundance
Kate Bosworth, DJ Qualls and Lance Henriksen
Directed by Michael Polish

Writer/Director Michael Polish has created an intriguing ten-episode series that’s modern Western with a philosophical edge that made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. There is a lead character surrounded by death. Revenge. Pistols. Blood. The whole piece exists as a visual representation of a quote from “Once Upon a Time in America”, “People like that have something inside... ... more >

Straw Dogs

Remake faithful to the original--for better or for worse
James Marsden, Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgård
Directed by Rod Lurie

Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs,” released forty years ago, is perhaps the most thematically confused thriller ever made. On the surface, it’s a standard fish-out-of-water/revenge story: a stuffy professor, David (Dustin Hoffman) and his lithe, blonde, British housewife Amy (Susan George) are tormented by hooligans—including Amy’s ex-boyfriend—when they move back to her rustic England hometown. At ... more >

Straw dogs

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