Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever?
The trailer for Amazon’s reportedly troubled $250m action-comedy shows that it might just be weightless action mush
April 2024
Weekend
What’s it like to be a sociopath?; Gen Z’s lust for Sex and the City; and Marina Hyde on ‘President’ The Rock – podcast
Marina Hyde with her take on Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s surreal US presidential bid; Emine Saner meets the sociopath who learned to behave – and found happiness; why Gen Z has fallen in love with Sex and the City; and do our political opponents really hate us?
Can you smell what The Rock is cooking? Could it be the most surreal presidential bid yet?
Marina Hyde
He’s never wanted to be in politics, you know – but if the people keep asking, he might just have to become America’s Final Boss, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson says he will not repeat Joe Biden endorsement
Wrestler and actor endorsed president and Kamala Harris in 2020 but tells Fox News that for 2024 he will ‘keep my politics to myself’
December 2023
XFL and USFL announce new, merged spring football league
The new league will kickoff in March 2024. The Arlington Renegades (XFL) and Birmingham Stallions (USFL) will play in the opening game
November 2023
Will this fix me?
Oh no! I’m sorry to report that cold plunges are great
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson: I was asked to run for US president by multiple political parties
October 2023
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson wax statue to be redone after star criticises its white skin
Musée Grévin says it is ‘improving’ wax figure of Fast and Furious star after it attracted widespread ridicule on social media
August 2023
Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson launch Maui wildfire fund with $10m
Winfrey says direct cash assistance aims to support those affected as they determine what ‘rebuilding looks like for them’
July 2023
Dwayne Johnson donates ‘historic’ amount of money to US actors’ strike foundation
The star of the Fast and Furious franchise has made a seven-figure donation to a Sag-Aftra Foundation Relief Fund, for actors who will face ‘financial ruin’ due to the strike in Hollywood
May 2023
Fast X review – stupidly entertaining sequel offers more of the same
Vin Diesel et al return for an overstuffed Fast and Furious chapter that delivers giddily effective action but an outsized and silly villain
February 2023
XFL 3.0: can Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson make spring football work?
More than two decades after the XFL’s first incarnation imploded, the latest attempt at a spring football league kicks off this weekend. Will it manage to pull in fans?
October 2022
Now you've seen it
Black Adam: Dwayne Johnson’s new kind of superhero and a DC reset – discuss with spoilers
Black Adam review – the Rock’s in a hard place in superhero dud
Black Adam review – the Rock is back in Spandex for surrealist superhero comedy
Batgirl axed, The Flash floundering – can Black Adam turn things round for DC’s troubled superheroes?
Week in geek
Dwayne Johnson is wrong: a Marvel/DC crossover would be disastrous
Rock-a-bye baby: could a crowdsurfing tot save Dwayne Johnson?
Between the Rock and a hard place: the shoe deal hurting UFC fighters
July 2022
DC League of Super-Pets review – all-star cast carries cute superhero romp
The Rock, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon and Natasha Lyonne shine in this endearing and amusing spoof from the writers of the Lego Batman Movie