Sam Peckinpah Archives

Evans and his fellow action directors are well aware that viewers are here for the copious violence, with homages to Sam Peckinpah, John Woo, and cult Hong Kong & Italian filmmakers The gangster angst is just the spice on the curry After all, greed, business, and rage are there to drive the fights and ridiculously[...]

By José Luis del Río Fortich Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest.

In fact, if I have a criticism, it's that it's too well made. If you were born much after 1960, you may well not have seen Sam Peckinpah's grim, bloody 1971 drama Straw Dogs It doesn't often get aired on TV and it's not the kind of fuzzy feel-good DVD that gets pulled out when the[...]