“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, ...

The marketing for writer-director Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t shy about pushing this mixed martial arts biopic as Dwayne Johnson’s Oscar bid. For this film, the artist formerly known ...

Blunt and Dwayne Johnson go deep into the lives and hearts of their subjects in Benny Safdie's riveting anti-biopic. Blunt tells IndieWire about the serendipitous way it came together, and how they ...

As Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt reunite onscreen for 'The Smashing Machine', the pair is already looking forward to their next project together.

There’s a scene somewhere in the middle of The Smashing Machine that involves a knife, a cactus and a mild disagreement. It’s a light argument plenty of the audience will be familiar with. It’s likely ...

Blunt is proud that “Smashing Machine” is able to fully convey a real, if complicated, relationship: “This just felt like the full spectrum of what a relationship really looks like.

Emily Blunt, left, and Dwayne Johnson in “The Smashing Machine.” Benny Safdie wants to challenge our expectations of the traditional sports movie. His first solo directorial outing without his brother ...

The actor wants you to forget 'Jumanji' and think of him as Oscar material in this MMA-set drama from director Benny Safdie that also stars Emily Blunt.

By the sound of it, Johnson didn’t have a ton of time to let his famous elbow heal, as he and Safdie also revealed the situation got even more painful after he "blocked" some kicks while filming the ...

Johnson’s taut performance, Benny Safdie’s bio-pic about the mixed-martial-arts fighter Mark Kerr proves distanced and passionless.

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