It caught the audience off-guard ... This shift was helped along by 2015’s Magic Mike XXL (a stroke of titular genius), in which “female desire” comes to the fore, and explodes a bit ...

In Magic Mike World, upper-class female freedom costs just as much as ... there is no chocolate sauce licked off of audience members and no pretend marriage that leads to a sex swing.

"Magic Mike" is back for one ... for women better than they do themselves. Mike even tells Max that it is "chauvinistic" if she doesn't include a female lead in a show about women's empowerment.

Magic Mike's Last Dance, which Soderbergh directed ... Max wants to thrill her play's female audience, but she needs Mike's smarts and expertise to do it. Still, there's something a little too ...

Following its more modestly scaled predecessors but nonetheless ensconced in a like striptease-centered world, Magic Mike’s ... more-real-than-imagined female audience — its own premise ...

which helped Magic Mike XXL bring in an overwhelmingly female audience. In service of the tonal changes, Steven Soderbergh even stepped down from director for Magic Mike XXL, although he was still ...

Among the accomplished cast are two female emcees with strong ... “You learn to connect with an audience and read what they’re going through so you can better usher them through this new world of ...