BART GUNN was feeling pretty good about himself. The WWF (now WWE) wrestler born Michael Polchlopek had just finished winning ...

Bas Rutten is very impressed with how committed The Rock was to playing Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine. Rutten spoke with WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard about his role in The Smashing ...

Bas Rutten recently opened up about playing himself in The Smashing Machine. For many, it might seem like a surreal experience. However, Rutten said stepping into the role wasn’t too difficult. The ...

Bas Rutten recently spoke about The Smashing Machine and its potential impact on how MMA pioneers are perceived by the public. The film tells the true story of UFC legend Mark Kerr. Kerr’s rise, ...

Bas Rutten (far left) appears as himself in “The Smashing Machine.” | 📷: Eric Charbonneau/A24/Getty Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson by all accounts poured himself into playing Mark Kerr, the two-time ...

Bas Rutten recently shared why he turned down an offer from WWE. The UFC legend is well known for his charismatic personality, a valuable trait in pro wrestling. Rutten, 60, once held the King of ...

The Smashing Machine (2025) Film Review from the 50th Annual Toronto International Film Festival, a movie directed and written by Benny Safdie, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Lyndsey Gavin, ...

Only two kinds of actors are bad: those who can’t be themselves and those who you wish wouldn’t be. All the rest are likely to shine in movies by good directors, and most actors whose reputations aren ...

It’s clobbering time for The Rock in The Smashing Machine, the new biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr, which opens in theaters this weekend. There’s no one better to play a ...

The Rock’s latest Hollywood project, The Smashing Machine, will hit theaters on October 3, 2025. Based on the journey of MMA star Mark Kerr, the film witnesses his journey and the hardships he faced ...

TORONTO — Few actors are as well-recognized and easily typecast as the affable Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, but in “The Smashing Machine” from director Benny Safdie, Johnson disappears into his most ...

Dwayne Johnson stars as fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s mixed martial arts drama. “The Smashing Machine” is a strange one: a bio-drama about the emotional sensitivities of a professional fighter.