Stream and watch double features as unique as this weekend’s Glicked (Gladiator II and Wicked) — like a 2000s rom-com paired with a 2020s melodrama.
Movie industry executives are sanguine that this weekend’s releases of Wicked and Gladiator II can provide a repeat of last summer’s “Barbenheimer” box office miracle. Some have even, optimistically, nicknamed the future phenomenon “Glicked.”
It seems Hollywood’s plan for the future is the juxtaposition of films that are monumentally different in tone. It’s a return to the “double features” that were once regularly booked in America’s theaters. If you’re looking for similarly incongruous double bills, look no further.‘Melancholia and Coronets’: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and Melancholia (2011)
Could anybody possibly watch Lars von Trier’s magisterially downbeat disaster film, Melancholia, without the addition of the lightest possibly palate cleanser? My advice – start with Robert Hamer’s delightful Ealing Studios comedy from 1949, Kind Hearts and Coronets. It’s about a low-born cad (Dennis Price) who discovers he’s the heir to a dukedom and murders all of those above him in the family tree (eight of them, to be exact, all played by a pre-Obi-Wan Alec Guinness in the role[s] of a lifetime).
