News

'Surreal': Director of original 'Smashing Machine' documentary reacts to new Dwayne Johnson film

Before "The Smashing Machine" was a 2025 film starring Dwayne Johnson, it was a 2002 documentary about Mark Kerr, directed by ...

The Smashing Machine’s Director Sent The Rock An Excellent Gift To Let Him Know He Still Wanted To Make The Movie, And I’m Crushed The Star ‘Never Got It’

CBS has set fall premiere dates for its daytime lineup, including veteran dramas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and ...

The Smashing Machine Review: Dwayne Johnson's Serious A24 Movie Feels Half-Baked [TIFF 2025]

Johnson's performance as MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's "The Smashing Machine" is our glimpse of his Oscar-seeking ...
Okayplayer

Watch Rage Against The Machine's Documentary on The Myth of Whiteness

The politically-charged band teams with The Ummah Chroma on a powerful documentary short on the invention of whiteness. Never ones to let fascism go unchecked, Rage Against The Machine has released a ...

'The Smashing Machine' review: Dwayne Johnson, Benny Safdie make an elite MMA movie

With performances from Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, and incredible storytelling, "The Smashing Machine" is the undisputed champion of MMA films.

The Heartbreaking (and Bonkers) True Story Behind The Rock's Oscar-tipped 'The Smashing Machine'

In an early scene in the documentary The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr, a woman in a ...