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Wrestler Kurt Angle praises Dwayne Johnson’s The Smashing Machine, demands Oscar recognition for film

Wrestler Kurt Angle has high praise for director Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, the biographical film featuring Dwayne Johnson as mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr. Angle’s comments come when ...
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Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt and Benny Safdie’s Underdog ‘The Smashing Machine’: In a Topsy-Turvy Year, Don’t Count Them Out for Oscars Glory

The Rock had won over Christopher Nolan. The comments were widely picked up, in part because they went against conventional wisdom: The screening was on Oct. 5, the Sunday of “The Smashing Machine”’s ...