Oliver Lyttelton, Author at The Playlist

The Snubs & Surprises Of The 2018 Oscars

March 5, 2018 11:07 am

Another year, another Academy Awards ceremony down, and it was one with plenty to be happy about: long-overdue recognition for tremendous actors like Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney, much-deserved writing prize...

2018 Oscar Nominations By The Numbers

Oliver Lyttelton

January 23, 2018 12:25 pm

Awards, Features, News

There are always a number of things to love about Oscar nomination morning. A chance to cheer when great movies like “The Shape Of Water” receive a brace of nominations, a chance to curse the heavens with catha...

The Most Anticipated TV Shows Of 2018

Oliver Lyttelton and Rodrigo Perez

January 11, 2018 1:19 pm

Features, News, Television

Now it's time for TV. Back at the start of December, we ran down the 100 films that we’re most looking forward to across 2018, and we picked out some festival favorites that we’ve already seen and know are wort...

The Best Performances Of 2017

Oliver Lyttelton and Jessica Kiang

December 20, 2017 2:44 pm

Features, News

You don’t need great performances for a great movie, we suppose — Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s mesmerizing 2016 documentary/art piece “Homo Sapiens,” for instance, doesn’t feature a single human being on screen and is...

The Worst Films Of 2017

Jessica Kiang and Oliver Lyttelton

December 19, 2017 12:33 pm

Features, News

Best of this; top 20 that; breakthrough the other. At some point in our ever-comprehensive year-end coverage, especially after a pretty great movie year like this one, we simply get sick and tired of scanning o...

The Best Action Sequences Of 2017

Oliver Lyttelton and Jessica Kiang

December 18, 2017 1:54 pm

Features, News

Cinema is, quite literally, action, and while some of the snootier critics might look down on the action movie, there are few purer cinematic pleasures than looking at a great set-piece sequence, from “The Gene...

The Best TV Shows Of 2017

Jessica Kiang, Kimber Myers, Oliver Lyttelton and Rodrigo Perez

December 14, 2017 3:28 pm

Features, News, Television

It's always difficult to tell ahead of time which of our year-end lists will prove the most divisive among the usually harmonious Playlist team. But perhaps reflecting the inarguable explosion of quality TV ove...

The Best Scores & Soundtracks Of 2017

Oliver Lyttelton, Jessica Kiang and Rodrigo Perez

December 13, 2017 1:49 pm

Features, News

Even before filmmakers were even able to record and sync sound, movies and music have been tied together. Back then, music was played on a piano or an organ. Now, some of the world’s greatest composers write sc...

The Best Horror Films Of 2017

Oliver Lyttelton, Jessica Kiang and Drew Taylor

December 11, 2017 2:41 pm

Features, News

The horror films resurgence of the last few years has been a remarkable thing to watch: some of the most exciting new filmmakers to emerge have been working in the genre, and plenty of masters have been doing s...

The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2018

Oliver Lyttelton

December 5, 2017 12:40 pm

Features, News

We’re just getting started with our look at the best in film and TV of 2017, but before we really got sucked into the retrospective, we wanted to take a minute to look forward to what’s to come in the next twel...

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