Meridah Nandudu was a single mom of two kids, unemployed and in despair. Then she had an idea: Maybe the "humble" coffee beans she'd grown up with on her parents' farm could lead her to a better life.

Safdie's sincerely played duet between Johnson as an opioid-addicted MMA fighter and Emily Blunt as his codependent girlfriend sounds in and out of the ring like the stuff of awards fodder. In ...

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It’s clobbering time for The Rock in The Smashing Machine, the new biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr, which opens in theaters this weekend. There’s no one better to play a ...

The Smashing Machine is in theaters Friday, October 3rd. There’s a scene somewhere in the middle of The Smashing Machine that involves a knife, a cactus and a mild disagreement. It’s a light argument ...

When I was a kid watching anime, I always dreamed of trying claw machines but finding the same kind as in Japan was really hard IRL. Well, the Roblox Claw Machine Simulator made my childhood dreams ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is going back to his fighting roots but taking them to the big screen. In A24’s The Smashing Machine, the actor and WWE pro wrestler plays real-life retired fighter Mark Kerr ...

A West Milwaukee pizza factory worker was tragically killed after being crushed by a robotic machine on shift, authorities confirmed. The victim, identified as 45-year-old Robert Cherone of Elkhorn, ...