It’s hard to say writer-director Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is bad. It’s certainly well-made. It also sounds amazing. Most importantly, it features a genuinely outstanding lead performance ...

Like “biography” and “autograph,” the word “hagiography” has to do with the written word. The combining form “-graphy” comes from Greek “graphein,” meaning “to write.” “Hagio-” comes from a Greek word ...