The Venice Film Festival hosted the world premiere of The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie’s first solo directorial film. The biopic stars Dwayne Johnson as the legendary mixed martial arts fighter Mark ...

Dwayne Johnson has been known worldwide as "The Rock," one of the greatest wrestlers the sport has ever seen. He also began to switch to a movie star in the early 2000s, and has since taken the world ...

In his first solo outing, the director tells the story of UFC fighter Mark Kerr, crafting a clear-eyed drama that feels like a cousin to "The Wrestler." As all of this is happening, we hear Kerr’s ...

Venice: 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 ...

The Rock has a soft spot after all. Dwayne Johnson, 53, was brought to tears on Monday night after his newest movie, “The Smashing Machine,” received a 15-minute standing ovation and sparked Oscar ...

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 ...

On a breezy San Francisco afternoon last Saturday, I found myself at a nondescript coworking space filled with shoeless coders. Just over a hundred visitors had crowded into an office building in the ...

On paper, The Smashing Machine sounds like an Oscar lock: a transformational performance by a much-loved star, in a real-life redemption story set in the dog-eat-dog world of blue-collar sport (in ...

The Mark Kerr biopic for A24 is one of the most anticipated new films of the fall. ‘A House of Dynamite’ Trailer: Kathryn Bigelow Pushes the Tension to the Breaking Point in Nuclear Missile Thriller ...

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Is Dwayne Johnson headed for the Oscars? Judging by the rapturous reaction to his performance as wrestler Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine” at the Venice Film Festival on Monday night, that seems to ...

Benny Safdie’s A24 film casts Johnson as legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr, who was in attendance at the Venice premiere, as was star Emily Blunt. By Chris Gardner Benny Safdie’s ...