When The Who smashed their guitars and drums on stage, it felt like an extension of their loud, abrasive, and defiant rock ‘n’ roll. Years later, Pete Townshend would suggest that his “smashing ...

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Filmmaker Benny Safdie wants to challenge our expectations of the traditional sports movie. His first solo directorial outing without his brother Josh, “The Smashing Machine” is a biopic that zigs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. Although biographical sports drama The Smashing Machine is based ...

“The Smashing Machine” recounts the success and struggles of Ultimate Fighting Championship champion Mark Kerr. Relying on his own professional wrestling background, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson gives a ...

Johnson as Mark Kerr in 'The Smashing Machine' Film Critic Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine—premiering here at the Venice Film Festival—is satisfying as much for what it doesn’t do as for what it ...

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 ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Big man. Pained soul. Mad wife. At its bleeding, opioid-addicted heart, American filmmaker Benny Safdie’s solo directorial debut, The ...

The Upper West Side deli where I meet Benny Safdie is filled with a particular kind of grumpy old-school Manhattanite. They’re the type of figure who has tended to populate the filmmaker’s movies: ...

When it came to playing the brutal, battered and drug addled UFC fighter Mark Kerr in his new movie, “The Smashing Machine,” Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson agreed to a hard bargain. It was clear that there ...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson completely transformed into fighter Mark Kerr for the biographical sports drama The Smashing Machine. Johnson committed to the role so much, he sat in the makeup chair for ...