Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Andie MacDowell shares stories from her most memorable movies, including "St. Elmo's Fire," "Groundhog Day," "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Magic Mike XXL." On Tuesday’s Ellen Degeneres Show, ...

Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...

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.

"Magic Mike XXL" is a kids' movie for adults — loads of fun. The audience clapped, laughed and gasped at appropriate moments. It's a road trip with a mission — a group of guys who once did "male ...

Magic Mike’s Last Dance isn’t nearly the crowd-pleaser its predecessors were. However, despite this seeming step down from the crime-adjacent Magic Mike and the affirming bro-trip of Magic Mike XXL, ...

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 ...