Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal has revealed he can no longer dunk. At 53, a titanium hip replacement prevents high-impact ...

The Smashing Machine was released on October 3, 2025, by A24. Prior to that, it bagged the Silver Lion award at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. Benny Safdie has written and directed this ...

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Filmmaker Benny Safdie wants to challenge our expectations of the traditional sports movie. His first solo directorial outing without his brother Josh, “The Smashing Machine” is a biopic that zigs ...

Dwayne Johnson is opening up about his transformation in the upcoming A24 film "The Smashing Machine." Johnson portrays mixed martial artist and UFC fighter Mark Kerr in the movie, and he wore a wig ...

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 a superb sports drama. Dwayne Johnson delivers a terrific performance as Mark Kerr, the title character. Emily Blunt is superb as Mark’s volatile girlfriend. In the end, Mark ...

Want to know who’s winning in politics? Look at who’s laughing and who’s trying to keep their chin up. Remember those joyful early days of then-Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign? They were ...

Johnson stars in the new movie as MMA and UFC fighter Mark Kerr. Dwayne Johnson is opening up about his transformation in the upcoming A24 film "The Smashing Machine." Johnson portrays mixed martial ...

Dwayne Johnson shines, but the movie around him tells the wrong story. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Benny Safdie’s“The Smashing Machine” is an anti-biopic. It is very clearly an attempt by a filmmaker to make a sports movie that doesn’t lean into the expected clichés of sports movies. Whereas most ...