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Magic Mike XXL
February 2023
What women want: how the Magic Mike franchise caters to female desire
In a sea of increasingly sexless multiplex options, the Steven Soderbergh-directed series prioritises lust and female pleasure
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’
January 2016
The crush
Crush of the week: Jada Pinkett Smith
It took guts for Pinkett Smith to call out the diversity whitewash at the Oscars. Even millionaires are not totally immune to Hollywood’s wrath
November 2015
Charlie Lyne's home entertainment
Magic Mike XXL: stripping the storyline down to the bare bones
You don’t need a good screenplay or character arc when Channing Tatum and co have got their kit off, just plenty of long shots and slo-mo
July 2015
Box office analysis: global
Salman Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan establishes Indian dominance as Baahubali breaks more records
Box office analysis: UK
Universal claims UK box-office record as Amy Winehouse doc stuns in week two
Box office analysis: global
Telugu epic Baahubali smashes box-office record in Bollywood takedown
Magic Mike XXL girls' night out: the safest safe space of all time
Clem Bastow
Box office analysis: UK
Minions easily overpower Terminator at the UK box office
Channing Tatum on Magic Mike XXL: 'I’m all for equal opportunity objectification'
Magic Mike XXL star Channing Tatum: ‘I’ve plumbed the depths of my life as a stripper’ – video
Magic Mike is an XXL hit with women but why did it turn men off?
Box office analysis: global
I'll be slack: Terminator Genisys flops as Magic Mike's pulling power proves XXS
The evolution of Channing Tatum: from 'dull beefcake dude' to XXL movie star
Jurassic World's prehistoric beasties defeat newcomers at US box office
Magic Mike XXL review – eye-catching if largely insubstantial
The Guardian film show
The Guardian film show live: Amy, Terminator Genisys, Magic Mike XXL and Orson Welles – video reviews
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
Magic Mike XXL review: like watching pained strippers dryhump
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