Benny Safdie

Film Review: The Smashing Machine; Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt are formidable in visceral MMA biopic

Despite his absolute monstrous size at the time of his career and just how brutal he proved in the ring of mixed martial arts, Mark Kerr was – and still is – a figure that defied the expectations many would presumably put upon him from a personal standpoint.  Softly spoken, with an emotional sense that…

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The Smashing Machine; Dwayne Johnson is a revelation in brutal, emotional biopic: Toronto International Film Festival Review

Despite his absolute monstrous size at the time of his career and just how brutal he proved in the ring of mixed martial arts, Mark Kerr was – and still is – a figure that defied the expectations many would presumably put upon him from a personal standpoint.  Softly spoken, with an emotional sense that…

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Dwayne “The Oscar Winner” Johnson? First look trailer for UFC drama The Smashing Machine would suggest so

Dwayne Johnson has had a lot of iterations as a performer: The Rock, franchise Viagra, unlikely hit singer, television personality, Tequila connoisseur, United Football League owner…and now, possible Oscar winner? Transforming himself to embody Mark Kerr, an American former wrestler and mixed martial artist, Johnson is looking to prove his detractors wrong in The Smashing Machine, a filmic…

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