THE makers of a new film about Britain’s greatest female spy have been caught up in Russia’s war against the West. Movie The ...

Reminiscences of frontier life in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, 1870-1890. The account of the raid and subsequent capture in 1878-1879, of Dull Knife, chief of the northern Cheyennes, occupies only one ...

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, ...

The director, at the height of his powers, delivers a startling, present-day American epic, with Leonardo DiCaprio as a ...

It was November 10, 2004, Bellavia’s 29th birthday, and he was spending it alone, clearing an enemy bunker deep inside Fallujah. As soon as Staff Sergeant David Bellavia stepped into the room, the ...

Murder trial jurors have been shown footage of a knife fight at an old bus station between a 16-year-old boy and a man a decade older. Daniel Ceidi, 27, died after the incident near The Galleria ...

The Manchester synagogue terrorist was on bail accused of rape when he carried out his attack, it has emerged. Jihad ...

Benny Safdie did not want to use visual effects and preferred to limit the use of stunt doubles in The Smashing Machine.

The knife never visibly pierces skin, and the violence is created in the editing — 78 shots in 45 seconds, with Bernard Herrmann ’s shrieking strings doing as much work as Anthony Perkins ’ blade. It ...

In this episode of "Notes on a Scene," 'The Smashing Machine' director Benny Safdie breaks down the scene where Mark Kerr (Dwayne Johnson) has lost his first professional fight, and Dawn Staples ...

Boxer Canelo Alvarez poses for the fans with his title belts during weigh ins for his super middleweight boxing title fight against Billy Joe Saunders. / Jerome Miron-Imagn Images While there was ...

IN 1942 Guadalcanal saw hand-to-hand combat between American marines and Japanese soldiers. On September 10th the island hosted another geopolitical tussle—when leaders of Pacific-island countries as ...