Dwayne Johnson used two heartbreaking moments from his life in his most emotional scene in The Smashing Machine.

The Golden Globes-nominated actor talks to IndieWire about all the contributing factors that led to this “banging on my rib cage” telling him to make the unconventional A24 sports biopic with director Benny Safdie. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s ...

Dwayne Johnson is up for his first Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Drama for his real-life portrayal of MMA fighter Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine, a movie that brought him a 15-minute standing ovation when it premiered in Venice and has, as he says ...

Johnson portrayed two-time UFC Champion Mark Kerr in the Benny Safdie-directed A24 film which released in October last year. As portrayed in the film, Kerr suffered from an opioid addiction during his fighting career. And that was one of the things that ...

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 bear all the hallmarks of something ...