Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson is back in theatres this weekend with The Smashing Machine, playing the role of a mixed martial arts fighter who struggles both in and outside the ring. Directed by Benny Safdie, the film is a loose remake of John Hyams’s 2002 documentary The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr and here Johnson delivers a performance that feels new and unfamiliar – and might even earn him a spot in Academy Awards history. Read more.

And on stage, theatre critic Aisling Murphy reviews Tell Tale Harbour, calling it “a perfectly serviceable (if occasionally cloying) story of a fictional small town on Canada’s easternmost coast.” Read full review.

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