A version of this essay originally ran in conjunction with Magic Mike’s Last Dance’s arrival on digital streaming. It has been updated and reposted in conjunction with the film’s arrival on Netflix.

The point, the purpose — the raison d’être, if you’re feeling fancy — of the Magic Mike male-stripper movies is catering to women’s fantasies. As the series has expanded from the working-class grit of ...

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 ...

Director Steven Soderbergh said "it was our desire to make a sexy movie" by exploring "intimacy and genuine emotion" Steven Soderbergh is explaining why the latest Magic Mike film doesn't feature any ...

In 2012, the world of male stripping took center stage in Magic Mike. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Magic Mike stars Channing Tatum as Mike Lane, an aspiring entrepreneur who works odd jobs as a ...

The third and final “Magic Mike” marries some of the old bump and grind with a new “Let’s put on a show!” mindset. Those who adore Channing Tatum's abs still have plenty to enjoy with “Magic Mike’s ...

Magic Mike XXL is the sequel to the popular 2012 movie Magic Mike and follows a now ex-stripper Mike, as he decides to reunite with his former stripper friends from the Kings of Tampa and go on a road ...

Magic Mike's Last Dance, which Soderbergh directed from a script by Reid Carolin, isn't nearly as sexy or as deliriously entertaining as its predecessors — or, I assume, as the Magic Mike Live shows ...

"It felt full-circle for me," the actress tells PEOPLE Salma Hayek Pinault is happy to have someone else do the onscreen stripping for once. In Magic Mike's Last Dance, the Oscar nominee plays a ...

Forget getting ahead in America. The stripper at the heart of the film trilogy is working frantically not to lose his shirt. By Esther Zuckerman The first thing you learn about Mike Lane, played by ...

Mike Lane is now a bartender. His custom furniture company went belly-up during the pandemic, and so there he is, mixing drinks at a swanky Miami charity event, when he meets Maxandra Mendoza (Salma ...