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 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 ...

Actor/writer/director Aziz Ansari is best known for his role on the sitcom Parks & Recreation and for creating and starring ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

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 ...

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 ...

Collider's Perri Nemiroff chats with the cast and creatives behind By Design at this year's Sundance Film Festival. By Design flips the body swap genre on its head in a thoughtful comedy-drama about a ...

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 ...