9 h. ago Freaky Friday director addresses criticism of Asian representation in movie

‘I was fully aware that it was over the top,’ says Mark Waters

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3 d. ago Wallabies and Springboks in identity swap for clash amid thin air of Highveld | Daniel Gallan

The frenemies meet in this year’s Rugby Championship opener at Ellis Park where they are expected to rip pages out of the other’s playbookOne team boasts some of the most menacing forwards found anywhere in the world. The other is developing a scintillating backline capable of tearing apart any defence. Business as usual, then, for a Wallabies versus Springboks clash. Except this time, like the characters of Freaky Friday, the two sides have switched identities ahead of the first round of the Rugby Championship.Australia might have lost the British & Irish Lions series but they were one referee’s decision at the breakdown away from causing a seismic upset. That the margin was so small was thanks largely to the thundering cameos of Will Skelton, Rob Valetini, Taniela Tupou and a handful of other meaty men who provided the front-foot grunt that was absent in the first Test in Brisbane. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Iconic Y2K and 90s Easter Eggs you probably missed in Freakier Friday

The Freaky Friday sequel is full of hidden references

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8 d. ago NCIS' Mark Harmon lands new role away from Gibbs as he reunites with co

NCIS star Mark Harmon has been keeping busy since his character's departure from the long-running police procedural as he recently reunited with his Freaky Friday co-stars.

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9 d. ago 'I grew up watching Freaky Friday and critics are so wrong about the sequel'

Forget what you've read, this is the truth about Freakier Friday

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9 d. ago Freaky Friday fans are just learning Jamie Lee Curtis almost wasn't in original film

As fans are preparing to watch the new Freaky Friday sequel, some were shocked to learn that Jamie Lee Curtis barely made the cut to star in the now iconic movie with Lindsey Lohan

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1 week ago Freaky Friday cast now as Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reunite for new film

Lohan's cinematic comeback is finally here

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1 week ago Chad Michael Murray embraces his teen heartthrob legacy: ‘It’s a blessing’

Chad Michael Murray is reprising his role as Lindsay Lohan’s former love interest in the Freaky Friday sequel.

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1 week ago Freakier Friday review – puppyishly uninhibited Jamie Lee Curtis saves body

The body-swap comedy continues and while Lindsay Lohan puts in a serviceable appearance it’s her co-star who makes this zany update a treatNo one could be gamer or goofier than Jamie Lee Curtis in this latest twist in the Freaky Friday body-swap franchise; she finds some distinctly likable form, plays broad comedy to the hilt and pretty much carries the movie – with the help of some nice supporting cameo turns – when her co-star Lindsay Lohan isn’t exactly nailing the laughs. And it should be said that as an essay in alternative existences and parallel realities, this film and Curtis’s starring role are far more interesting than the bafflingly overrated Oscar-winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.The preceding film, from 2003, had Curtis and Lohan as a quarrelling mother and daughter who swap bodies due to the hilarious magical otherness of Chinese fortune cookies. (In 2025, the new version is a bit culturally lairy of gags like that.) It is based on Mary Rodgers’s 1972 novel, fi...

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2 w. ago A particular set of skills: how Liam Neeson went from ‘master actor’ to deadpan Naked Gun spoofery

As his turn in cop-comedy reboot brings rave reviews, we look back on the actor’s varied career, from Schindler’s List to Star Wars and, of course, TakenLiam Neeson may have gained pop-culture immortality for his gravelly growl of a certain line of dialogue in the 2008 hostage thriller Taken – “I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills” – but the release of his new film, a reboot of the classic spoof cop movie The Naked Gun represents another remarkable turn in Neeson’s distinguished career, which has taken in heavyweight prestige dramas, historical biopics, blockbusting science fiction, superhero epics and head-cracking action cinema.In The Naked Gun, Neeson has for the first time taken the lead role in an out-and-out comedy. He plays Frank Drebin Jr, the police-detective son of Leslie Nielsen’s Frank Drebin in the original. Created by the celebrated comedy team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, The Naked Gun was released in 1988, with...

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