Reviews for Dwayne Johnson’s new movie, The Smashing Machine, have dropped ahead of its Oct. 3 release, and they’re surprisingly mixed. Up until earlier this week, buzz for Benny Safdie’s sports ...

True to its name, The Smashing Machine is an exercise in brutality, full of crashes, fights and collisions leaving shards, both orthopedic and emotional. The 2002 documentary tour de force chronicles ...

Awards Circuit Podcast: In this season premiere episode, the star of Benny Safdie's MMA drama talks about his first big swing into dramatic roles Portraying real-life MMA legend Mark Kerr, Johnson ...

Dwayne Johnson packs on even more muscle for the role of a lifetime as complicated MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Benny Safdie's sports biopic "The Smashing Machine" puts The Rock in the Oscar best actor ...

Whether she’s wearing a 39kg exoskeleton suit as Edge of Tomorrow’s lethal heroine or executing hardcore fight scenes in Sicario, Hollywood royalty Emily Blunt knows the meaning of a physically ...

With a title like The Smashing Machine, one might expect writer-director Benny Safdie’s first solo-directed feature to be a brutal, grinding sit. The film is based on the 2002 documentary of the same ...

Paul Kingsnorth has First World problems. He has food and shelter. He has a laptop and an Internet connection. He takes his family on intercontinental vacations. Yet he finds the present day cold and ...

In his bid for Oscar glory, Dwayne Johnson does a fine job while Emily Blunt lives up to her surname The marketing for writer-director Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t shy about pushing ...

WWE legend Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson confirmed this week that he has lost weight after bulking up for his role as Mark Kerr in the movie The Smashing Machine. Speaking to Marc Malkin of Variety, The ...

HAMPTON, Va. — With a loud groan, and cheers and applause from a crowd of onlookers, Mary, the tunnel-boring machine, broke through onto the south island of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel Wednesday ...