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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arthur Harari knows his case is strange. At 45, the filmmaker behind “The Unknown” hits Cannes competition with an Oscar, two ...

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 ...

Director Arthur Harari is determined not to have any fun with the fertile cross-gender body-swap premise of "The Unknown," starring Léa Seydoux.

Only at the Sundance Film Festival could you see a body swap film not about a body swap, but rather, a person swapping lives with a chair. Writer-director Amanda Kramer delivers this level of genre ...

Cannes: A hypnotic, vertiginous, Antonioni-flavored body swap movie from the co-writer of "Anatomy of a Fall." A hollowed and lonely Parisian photographer named David (Niels Schneider) goes to a ...

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The storytelling is simple to a fault, but the woodland fantasy world is a psychedelic delight. Most of the creatures in the Valley have a supple fantasy dimension. The hero, Ollie (voiced with ...