The team behind 'The Smashing Machine' wanted to make every slam, punch and knee to the head reverberate all the way to the ...

Female fighters are often overlooked in martial arts movies, with some fight scenes that are just as fast, kinetic, and exciting as their male counterparts. Like many film genres, martial arts movies ...

Before Benny Safdie began shooting The Smashing Machine, Mark Kerr gave the filmmakers a wrestling lesson. The movie’s stunt team and others gathered around the padded ring at the Vancouver soundstage ...

NPR's Megan Lim and Ryan Benk, two action sequence aficionados, discuss the elements of a great cinematic fight scene. DETROW: I think that was one of the first fight scenes that really stuck with me, ...

DETROW: I think that was one of the first fight scenes that really stuck with me, and even though it's become kind of a cheesy trope over the years, it is still iconic. But what pulls a fight scene ...