The beginning of a new month, the Movies Fantasy League unveiling this season’s first leaderboard , and another Taylor Swift album : All three of these elicit a sense of fear on some level, which is very on brand for the Halloween season. We’ve got a handful of selections for the season, including vampires, dogs investigating the paranormal, and Ryan Murphy. There’s also a Taylor Swift album-release event duking it out with Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine in movie theaters this weekend. The Smashing Machine a.k.a. Taylor Swift’s album-release strategy. Okay, moving on …

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. The Smashing Machine

Directed by one half of the Safdie brothers , The Smashing Machine stars Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson as wrestler Mark Kerr. Set in the late ’90s, this drama foll

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