Movie Review: THE SMASHING MACHINE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/03/2025
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Rating: R Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten Writer: Benny Safdie Director: Benny Safdie Distributor: A24 Release Date: October 3, 2025 THE SMASHING MACHINE is a fact-based drama about the life and career of mixed martial arts fighting star Mark Kerr. This follows the 2022 HBO documentary about Kerr, THE SMASHING MACHINE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EXTREME FIGHTER MARK KERR. What sets the new SMASHING MACHINE apart from other narrative features covering mixed martial arts, boxing, wrestling, and other full-contact one-on-one sports is not so much the approach of writer/director Benny Safdie to the material. Instead, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HAYWIRE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/20/2012
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Rating: R Stars: Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Michael Angarano, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton Writer: Lem Dobbs Director: Steven Soderbergh Distributor: Relativity Media Release Date: January 20, 2012 There are few if any movies where CIA agents and their allies are perfectly comfortable with all of their work colleagues. It’s therefore no big surprise to the audience when government “private contract” black ops specialist Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) gets burned by someone she trusted. It’s not surprising either, what with HAYWIRE being an action movie, that the more Mallory understands she’s being messed with, the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WARRIOR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/11/2011
WARRIOR movie poster | ©2011 Lionsgate

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, Kevin Dunn Writers: Gavin O’Connor & Anthony Tambakis & Cliff Dorfman, story by Gavin O’Connor & Cliff Dorfman Director: Gavin O’Connor Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: September 9, 2011 A movie about two brothers who haven’t seen each other for years, the younger not speaking to the elder and both estranged from their father, who both wind up competing out of financial necessity in the same worldwide mixed martial arts worldwide championship match sounds like it’s going to have its share of clichés and melodrama. WARRIOR does in […]Read On »


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