Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the new sports drama “The Smashing Machine,” director Benny Safdie and Hollywood megastar Dwayne Johnson want audiences to ...

Emily Blunt said in a new interview that her Smashing Machine costar Dwayne Johnson's role as former UFC fighter Mark Kerr "has been life-changing for him" "This is a man who’s never allowed to ...

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, ...

LIDO, Venice, Italy – Dwayne Johnson knows that as a global star, he’s a brand name, with all the expectations that brings. But “The Smashing Machine” is an ambitious attempt to change things up, step ...

If the name Benny Safdie does not mean much to you yet, it definitely will now. From Good Time, Uncut Gems and Academy Award “Best Picture” winner Oppenheimer, Safdie, 39, has attached himself to ...

Dwayne Johnson gives the performance of his career in "The Smashing Machine." He plays mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr, and in the role Johnson is a completely different person, worlds away from ...

It’s hard to say writer-director Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is bad. It’s certainly well-made. It also sounds amazing ...

Venice: Safdie's endearing duet between Johnson as an opioid-addicted MMA fighter and Emily Blunt as his codependent ...

“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, ...

Opinions are the author’s alone and not endorsed by 2 NEWS and/or Nexstar Media Group. DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — In “The Smashing Machine,” we learn many things but one stands out more than the rest: ...