Oliver Lyttelton, Author at The Playlist

John Hillcoat & Nicolas Winding Refn Team For ‘Witchfinder General’ Remake

May 18, 2019 5:00 pm

Ask any horror fan worth their salt about underrated classics of the 1960s, and one film that’s sure to come up is “Witchfinder General.” Co-produced by Roger Corman’s American Independent Pictures, the 1968 fi...

Batman Returns Returns? The Penguin & Catwoman Rumored To Face Robert Pattinson’s Batman

Oliver Lyttelton

May 18, 2019 3:30 pm

News

You might not have noticed, given that the character has featured in three other DC movies (plus three Lego animated films) and multiple TV shows (plus several others on the way in the next year or two), but we...

Learn A New Language With An Exclusive Clip From Corneliu Poromboiu’s Cannes Noir Comedy ‘The Whistlers’

Oliver Lyttelton

May 18, 2019 12:38 pm

Festivals, News, Trailers

It's probably a stretch to call any of the Romanian New Wave filmmakers household names, exactly, but for over a decade now they've been making some of the most interesting cinema of anywhere in the world. And ...

Heroes Unite One Last Time In The Final Trailer For ‘Avengers: Endgame’

Oliver Lyttelton

March 14, 2019 8:51 am

News, Trailers

There’s plenty — arguably too many — massive movie events coming this year, from Tarantino taking on classic Hollywood to the end of the Skywalker saga. But the biggest of them all is likely to be “Avengers: En...

The Best & Worst Of The 2019 Oscars

Jessica Kiang, Oliver Lyttelton and Andrew Bundy

February 25, 2019 8:11 am

Awards, Features

It was the best of Oscars, it was the worst of Oscars. It was the age of wisdom (Spike Lee, Olivia Colman), it was the age of foolishness ("Green Book"), it was the epoch of belief (Regina King), it was the epo...

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The 50 Most Anticipated TV Shows Of 2019

Oliver Lyttelton

December 26, 2018 3:53 pm

Features, News, Television

Just when you thought Peak TV couldn’t get Peakier (a record 495 scripted shows aired in 2018 - read about our favorites of the year here), things are going to get even crazier in 2019. Netflix will continue to...

The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2019

Oliver Lyttelton

December 3, 2018 1:59 pm

Features, News

After what feels like a year made up of roughly 5 million weeks (fun fact: the film “Black Panther” was released in 2018! It’s true!), December has rolled around and the light at the end of the 2018 tunnel is i...

‘Shadow’ Is A Beautiful And Thrilling Return To Form For Filmmaker Zhang Yimou [LFF Review]

Oliver Lyttelton

October 22, 2018 10:30 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Zhang Yimou isn’t the first acclaimed international filmmaker to have come a cropper by working within the Hollywood studio system, but, even still, “The Great Wall” hurt more than most. Yimou is the winner of ...

‘Stan & Ollie’: John C. Reilly & Steve Coogan Are Excellent As The Comedy Legends [LFF Review]

Oliver Lyttelton

October 21, 2018 4:09 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

lIt’s easy to feel by the middle of September that awards season is locked up - the vast majority of contenders revealed, and the winner a good bet (it’s a decade since a movie that skipped the fall festival ci...

David Mackenzie’s Re-Edited ‘Outlaw King’ Trims The Fat & Is A Rousing, Satisfying Adventure [LFF Review]

Oliver Lyttelton

October 17, 2018 2:48 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

We don’t usually review movies twice at The Playlist. But then again, a director doesn’t usually cut a substantial chunk of his film after reactions from a festival premiere suggested it was too long, and debut...

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