One of the tried-and-true plot devices in all of storytelling is the idea of body switching. It's when two characters with opposite personalities switch bodies and then have to cope with what it's ...
The body-swap storyline has been a tried and true storytelling device throughout film history, most often being utilized as a way to allow actors to portray characters completely different from what ...
The underwhelming Netflix comedy Family Switch (“A dad joke of a movie,” according to critic Nell Minow) reminds us of two things. First, the appeal of body-swap movies for filmmakers remains undimmed ...
This week brings a sequel 22 years in the making, “Freakier Friday.” The 2003 “Freaky Friday” was itself a remake of a 1976 Disney comedy, and in between, there was a 1995 TV movie version. Along the ...
Most of the best-known body-swapping movies are comedies, and many of those follow the age-gap pattern of Freaky Friday, a 1976 adaptation of the Mary Rodgers’ YA novel where a mother and daughter ...
The film starts out in familiar territory, with an upcoming wedding (complete with its own hashtag, naturally) reuniting a group of friends at a pre-wedding party. There’s Shelby (Brittany O’Grady) ...
Jeremy Crabb is a film-focused freelance writer for Collider. Growing up just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Jeremy first fell in love with cinema in 2005, when he made his first trip to the theater to ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: Days before Tracker began production on its highly-anticipated sophomore season, Justin Hartley attended the Television Critics Association’s Summer 2024 press tour to ...
Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen Kupferer and “Ghostlight” director Alex Thompson will reunite for a body swap comedy. Think “Freaky Friday” with an indie sensibility. From “Heaven Can Wait” to “Big” ...
Plus, director Greg Jardin tells Entertainment Weekly about the unique way he kept track of all the body swaps on set. No body is ready for It's What's Inside. In the trippy trailer for the ...