Discover What’s Streaming On: Benny Safdie’s first solo feature, The Smashing Machine, may appear as disarmingly simple as the sports movie formula. But he has high-minded aspirations with his ...

The Rock breaks down in tears after The Smashing Machine’s Venice premiere. The Rock stars in A24’s upcoming Mark Kerr biopic, The Smashing Machine, with his Jungle Cruise co-star Emily Blunt. The ...

There are two movies called The Smashing Machine. The first is the 2002 documentary about Mark Kerr, former wrestler and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. Dwayne Johnson saw the film and as somebody ...

Dwayne Johnson portrays real life UFC fighter Mark Kerr in 'The Smashing Machine,' in theaters Oct. 3 Tommy McArdle is a writer-reporter on the Movies team at PEOPLE. Tommy joined PEOPLE in 2022. A24 ...

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 ...

If the film earns awards consideration in no other categories, “The Smashing Machine” should at least get a nod or two for wardrobe. The late 1990s and early 2000s were a hell of a time for men’s ...

Johnson’s performance as mixed martial artist Mark Kerr “looks bound to win him awards recognition,” wrote one critic A24 Are Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in the Oscar conversation for their new ...

Indeed, while preparing to play the role of real-life UFC fighter Mark Kerr in his latest film "The Smashing Machine," the professional wrestler detailed the “many hours” of training he endured to ...