In 2025, Dwayne Johnson starred in A24’s The Smashing Machine. His role as former amateur wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr earned the actor his first Golden Globe nomination, but the film has now ...

Nine times out of 10, when it comes to sibling directing pairs, they are never meant to be separated. Just look at how it went for Joel and Ethan Coen in the last five years—the division between two ...

When the Oscar nominations went out this week, one of the most prominent names that was left off the Best Actor list was Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Although critics have given the film high marks, The ...

Mark Kerr is the subject of the movie "The Smashing Machine."Tiziana FABI/AFP/Getty One of the most dominant fighters in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) during the late 1990s, Kerr rose ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook There’s a big, big reason why The Smashing Machine became a box office flop, though, and it has nothing to do with ...

Arguably one of the highest-rated films of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s career and critically acclaimed, The Smashing Machine directed by Benny Safdie, released in 2025, received thunderous reviews but ...

Dwayne Johnson transforming into MMA pioneer Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” and Louis Tomlinson releasing his third solo album are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a ...

Dwayne Johnson has spent years leading some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, but during The Hollywood Reporter Actor Roundtable, the global star made it clear that The Smashing Machine was never ...