UFC legend Bas Rutten played himself in the recent Dwayne Johnson vehicle The Smashing Machine — a rather unique set of circumstances, since the movie is not a documentary. In other words, Rutten had ...

An action star makes his Oscar bid in a skull-cracking biopic, and a pop star makes her album publicity bid with a music video reveal. Elsewhere, cinemas host a trio of triumphant returns — the ...

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 ...

UFC legends and "The Smashing Machine' cast members Mark Kerr, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, and Oleksandr Usyk visit WIRED to answer the 50 most googled questions about UFC. 35,902 people played the daily ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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