Freeze Frame: "Freakier Friday" (PG), "Weapons" (R), "Sketch" (PG), "My Mother's Wedding" (R)

08/08/2025 2 min

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Episode Synopsis


Sometimes familiarity is what audiences want, and Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan deliver just that in "Freakier Friday," the sequel to their 2003 comic fantasy, "Freaky Friday." This time out, the supernatural body swap involves four characters including Lindsay's daughter and soon-to-be stepdaughter. The complications and sentimentality are predictable, but the cast is obviously having a ball and fans of the original will, too.

The wildly imaginative and weirdly unsettling horror flick "Weapons" is a creatively made slow burn creepfest. Julia Garner and Josh Brolin are excellent in the tale of 17 children who mysteriously disappear from the same grade school class. The story unfolds by jumping back-and-forth in time to work its way under your skin. "Weapons" should give even hardcore horror buffs a case of the shudders.

If Stephen King wrote a horror movie for kids, it might look a bit like "Sketch." A troubled little girl draws monstrous images in her notebook in an attempt to cope with her mother's death. When the pictures are accidentally dumped into a magical pond, the destructive creatures come to life. While "Sketch" is an inventive and sweet PG family feature, it might still be a bit too scary for very young kids.

Scarlett Johansson and Sienna Miller star in “My Mother’s Wedding,” a sentimental comic drama that marks the writing and directing debut of actress Kristin Scott Thomas. Three bickering sisters attend their widowed mother’s weekend nuptials and old emotional wounds are reopened. It’s being trashed by most critics, but “My Mother’s Wedding” is a pleasant enough timewaster that doesn’t quite deserve the wrath of the haters.

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