What women want: how the Magic Mike franchise caters to female desire
Going out, staying in
From Magic Mike to Paramore: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
From Out of Sight to Magic Mike: our writers pick their favourite Soderbergh films
Magic Mike’s Last Dance review – third chunk of male stripper yarn is anti-climactic
April 2022
Thandiwe Newton denies being fired from Magic Mike due to row with Channing Tatum over Will Smith
Representatives for the actor have called reports that Tatum fired her after an argument about Smith’s behaviour at the Oscars ‘completely inaccurate’
December 2020
Magic Mike Live: how the 'feverish spectacle' survived a pandemic – and made it to Australia
Channing Tatum proclaimed his touring smash hit ‘a dance show you can actually touch’. How will it move audiences in a Covid-safe world?
December 2019
Alex Pettyfer: ‘You have to be secure to work with men’
He was a teen actor touted as a future male lead until on-set conflicts derailed him. Now Pettyfer is back with his directorial debut – but has he grown up?
November 2018
'The safe word is unicorn': can you stomach Magic Mike Live?
Channing Tatum brings his strip show and self-help rally to London’s Hippodrome, offering consumerist feminism of the purest form
May 2016
Channing Tatum to bring Magic Mike Live to Las Vegas
The actor has announced a stage version of his stripper tale to debut in 2017 in order to give women ‘what they really want’
February 2016
TV tonight
Friday’s best TV: Gogglebox, Shetland, QI and Daft Punk Unchained
The meta-TV show returns; there’s a death and rape on the island; Stephen Fry delivers his last intelligence test. Plus: the French disco duo’s rise charted, with star guests Kanye and Pharrell
December 2015
'You owe money': Alex Pettyfer reveals reason for Channing Tatum feud
The actor explains he fell out with Magic Mike co-star Channing Tatum after refusing to pay money owed
July 2015
Channing Tatum on Magic Mike XXL: 'I’m all for equal opportunity objectification'
Magic Mike XXL – strippers' verdict: 'A public liability claim waiting to happen'
June 2015
Notebook
Magic Mike XXL: would Emmeline Pankhurst approve of male strippers?
Catherine Shoard
Andie MacDowell: ‘I have a problem with the word cougar. It’s demeaning’
February 2015
Film blog
Magic Mike XXL trailer – super-size my Channing, hold the McConaughey
Channing Tatum has released the first trailer for the Magic Mike sequel, which suggests there may be one or two shots of men without shirts in the finished film – though none of them will be Matthew McConaughey
September 2014
Magic Mike 2 stripped of Matthew McConaughey
Sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s drama about male strippers will not see the return of the Oscar-winning actor as club owner Dallas
May 2014
Channing Tatum: Magic Mike sequel inspired by 'mob mentality' of strippers' conventions
The star and producer of Magic Mike has opened up about the forthcoming sequel, inspired by trips he made to strippers' conventions and their 'incubator for insanity'
June 2013
Steven Soderbergh 'has offered to shoot' Magic Mike 2
Channing Tatum, star of original film, says follow-up may be his own directing debut
November 2012
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up – review
Matthew McConaughey continues his critical rehabilitation with a fine performance in Magic Mike, writes Mark Kermode
