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 ...

The Smashing Machine (2025) Film Review from the 50th Annual Toronto International Film Festival, a movie directed and written by Benny Safdie, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Lyndsey Gavin, ...

A24’s “The Smashing Machine” is here. Benny Safdie’s latest, and first solo directorial project, follows Mark Kerr (played, fearlessly, by Dwayne Johnson) a pioneering UFC fighter in its early days, ...

In the three decades since he's been an actor and professional wrestler, Dwayne Johnson has been a charismatic and likable onscreen presence, but has rarely been asked to play anything other than a ...

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Seth Berkman Seth Berkman is a fitness writer. He incorporates testing into ...

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 ...

Precision milling has always been locked behind a "members only" sign – giant machines that take up massive warehouse space, cost more than your first car, and hum like an old air compressor 24 hours ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Life-saving technology gave a 3-day-old baby a second chance at life. His parents are thanking a machine at Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola called ECMO for saving their ...

In the wake of the phenomenal success of Balatro, we are going to be treated to all manner of gambling-adjacent roguelites. And bring them on, I say! Coming soon we have picture-pairs deckbuilder ...

Mark Kerr earned a reputation as a destructive force very early on in his career. In an upcoming A24 movie, written and directed by Benny Safdie, some significant chapters of the former UFC fighter’s ...

Dwayne Johnson plays the former UFC star in Benny Safdie’s biopic ‘The Smashing Machine,’ due out in theaters on Oct. 3. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The A24 biopic, which screened at the ...