Freaky Friday (1976)

Freaky Friday (1976)

After watching Freaky last fall, I was trying to think of a good body-swapping movie with which to combine it. I finally decided to use all of them! Let’s start with the grandaddy of them all. Or the grandmommy, since it’s about women. Then again, it doesn’t deal with...
Like Father, Like Son

Like Father, Like Son

Over a decade after the original Freaky Friday came the first male equivalent. I remember when this was a new release on VHS. My parents and older sister really wanted to watch it, since they were Growing Pains fans and this was a starring vehicle for that infuriating...
Medora

Medora

This movie deals with something that’s long fascinated me – the decline of small town America due to the decline in the manufacturing sector. I used to get upset at big corporations for outsourcing (I suppose the movie whose lack of a Best Documentary...
Glory Road

Glory Road

I mentioned this movie’s similarity to Hoop Dreams thematically. It also reminds me of Remember The Titans, and I was thus not surprised to see that, after I watched this, Remember The Titans was the next movie Disney Plus recommended. Although I liked Titans, I...
Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams

Although it’s not on par with the Christopher Nolan “In” coincidence, it’s still interesting that I’m reviewing back-to-back basketball classics starting with “Ho”.  Back-to-back ones I’d been wanting to watch for the...
Hoosiers

Hoosiers

My top choice, Drive, He Said, wasn’t available for free streaming and neither were any of the other good 70s options. Thus we move ahead to the 80s, and a movie I would have paid for because of how long I’ve wanted to see it. On top of that it’s...