I am looking forward to Freakier Friday, and not just out of devotion to reigning Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis or out of pride for Lindsay Lohan’s recent comeback streak. I remember enjoying the ...

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 ...

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 ...