MMA legend Ryan Bader makes his acting debut in The Smashing Machine — and it didn’t take him long to realize he was in uncharted territory after filming with costar Emily Blunt. “We have a scene ...

In this episode of "Notes on a Scene," 'The Smashing Machine' director Benny Safdie breaks down the scene where Mark Kerr (Dwayne Johnson) has lost his first professional fight, and Dawn Staples ...

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson knew that he needed to feel what his character actually went through to improve a scene. It’s clear from his reaction to finished movie that ‘The Smashing Machine’ was an ...

From The Flash to Avengers: Endgame to 2002’s The Time Machine, time travel movies often follow characters hoping to prevent a present personal tragedy or larger calamity by tweaking some event in the ...

Fans of science fiction movies and TV know that behind aliens, space travel, and robots, time travel is, by far, one of the most beloved and often employed tropes of the genre. In fact, you could ...

With a title like The Smashing Machine, one might expect writer-director Benny Safdie’s first solo-directed feature to be a brutal, grinding sit. The film is based on the 2002 documentary of the same ...