“Magic Mike” is back for one last dance in the male stripper franchise’s third and final installment. After Mike’s (Channing Tatum) furniture business falls on hard times post-COVID, he finds himself ...

If you’re not someone who dreams of Channing Tatum flipping you around like a flapjack in front of an audience of shrieking women, you may scoff at the release of a third “Magic Mike” film. But the ...

For a decade now, the “Magic Mike” franchise has been all but shouting “This one’s for the ladies!” by featuring male strippers who grind and hip-thrust to the delight of straight female spectators.

It's been more than a decade since Channing Tatum first starred in "Magic Mike," a comedy based on his own pre-acting stint as a stripper. Audiences showered it with more than $100 million and did ...

Something’s off about Magic Mike’s Last Dance. It starts off well enough — it gives us what we want by giving us more of what worked before — before it loses its way. But it opens enticingly, ...

As the beloved “Magic Mike” trilogy comes to an end with “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” director Steven Soderbergh plans to soak in the finale by ending the upcoming movie with a 30-minute dance sequence.

Back in 2012 when Steven Soderbergh directed the first “Magic Mike” based loosely upon star Channing Tatum’s experiences in Tampa, FL, no one could have anticipated the actual empire that the film ...

If Magic Mike was a movie about the realities of male stripping, Magic Mike XXL was a movie about the fantasy of male stripping. In bringing back director Steven Soderbergh for part three (Gregory ...

Channing Tatum is back as the magic man, and Steven Soderbergh returns to direct Magic Mike’s Last Dance. Written by Reid Carolin, this stripper story has a feminist edge as it introduces a new ...

Beware franchise movies with “last” or “final” in the title. They can be great, like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Or they can be crappy, like any number of Friday the 13th or Freddy Kreuger ...

Aston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Magic Mike is back for one last dance in the male stripper franchise’s third and final instalment. After Mike’s (Channing Tatum) ...