Tag Archives: Rod Lurie

Joey Berlin from the Broadcast Film Critics Association – Critics’ Choice Awards By ROBERT W. WELKOS In 1995, Joey Berlin and Rod Lurie, two entertainment reporters and film critics who had written for rival publications, joined forces to create the Broadcast Film Critics Assn. While Lurie would go on to carve out[...]

HollywoodNews.com: If not for the fact that it were a remake of a beloved 1971 Sam Peckinpah film, Rod Lurie’s Straw Dogs would be a prime example of what we claim we want in our popcorn entertainment. It is, quite simply, an old-fashioned star-driven thriller with an emphasis on[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Sometimes we get caught up with the awards contenders of the fall and holiday film seasons, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t straight-up genre films we’re eagerly anticipating. Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion,” Rod Lurie’s “Straw Dogs,” Hugh Jackman’s robot-boxing drama “Real Steel” and the remake of “The Thing”[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Rod Lurie has been lingering in a director’s limbo. The one-time film critic burst onto the scene with the Joan Allen-led political thriller “The Contender.” But that was 2000, and follow up films have flown under the radar or failed to secure wide release (despite the fact[...]