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‘Expend4bles’ (Sept. 22)
In the near-decade that humanity and cinema have gone without a new “Expendables” movie, conversations around masculinity have evolved, which should make things interesting when “The Family Stallone” reality TV patriarch Sylvester Stallone returns in the R-rated fourth entry in Lionsgate’s brawny action franchise. Jason Statham steps up to lead the titular band of alpha male mercenaries recruited from your fave ’80s and ’90s action flicks, with Megan Fox, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and martial arts icons Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais joining the fight. Plot particulars involving nuclear weapons-smuggling terrorists are likely to be less memorable than the explosive stunts orchestrated by director Scott Waugh (“Act of Valor”). More curious will be how the film explains the conspicuous absence of franchise regular Terry Crews, who alleged in a 2018 Senate hearing that his outspokenness over sexual assault lost him the chance to reprise his role. — Jen Yamato
New still photo of Megan Fox, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, 50 Cent, and Levy Tran
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