“The Smashing Machine” is exactly what you would expect watching a former WWE wrestling superstar portray a mixed martial arts pioneer. Built as a showcase for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who also ...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Benny Safdie have teamed up to bring one of the most intriguing stories in combat sports to the big screen. Their new film, The Smashing Machine, dramatizes the life of ...

Helmed by Benny Safdie, ‘The Smashing Machine’ tells the story of UFC legend Mark Kerr, bringing the fight out of the cage and into his personal life. While he chases the summit of martial arts combat ...

“The Smashing Machine” is a strange one: a bio-drama about the emotional sensitivities of a professional fighter. Starring Dwayne Johnson, no less, and brought to us by writer-director Benny Safdie, ...

For an entire generation of Americans, Dwayne Johnson has only been known as one of Hollywood's most bankable actors, not for being the professional wrestler known as simply "The Rock" that made him ...

In 2001, the WWE wrestler turned actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson made his first film appearance in the action sequel The Mummy Returns. The movie is notable not just for how it launched his career in ...

The Smashing Machine cast breakdown: from Dwayne Johnson’s Mark Kerr to Emily Blunt’s Dawn Staples, plus where you’ve seen each actor before.

Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t what you think it is, especially if you think it’s a movie about a British guy who thinks his typewriter is the tops. “The Smashing Machine” would seem to ...