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 ...

PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 24 (UPI) --In Hollywood, a high concept movie usually refers to a blockbuster with a simple, compelling hook like "bomb on a bus" in Speed or "asteroid heading to Earth" in ...

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 ...