Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

EXPLAINED: 4 | Vintage Vibes

Reese Witherspoon for president! Election, a comedy from a time when US politics was amusing

Alexander Payne’s spiky and smart 1999 film, with its cast led by Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, follows a race for high school president in Omaha, Nebraska

The Guardian - AU

Randall Park reveals his "Shortcomings"

The director on how Greta Gerwig and Alexander Payne inspired his directorial debut and embracing flawed characters

Salon

The Holdovers: release date, cast and everything we know about the movie

Alexander Payne reunites with Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers. Here is everything we know about the new comedy movie.

WhatToWatch

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

5 years ago, Matt Damon made a sci-fi flop that was ahead of its time

While the film remains tonally inconsistent, it’s aged astonishingly well in the half-decade since it’s debut. Here’s why 'Downsizing' deserves a second shot.

Inverse

Reese Witherspoon to return as Tracy Flick in Election sequel

The Oscar-winner will reunite with Alexander Payne for a Paramount+ adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s Tracy Flick Can’t Win

The Guardian - US

What did Election’s Tracy Flick do to deserve our scorn?

As novelist Tom Perrotta publishes a sequel about the ambitious schoolgirl immortalised by Reese Witherspoon, Amanda Whiting asks: was a teenage girl striver who baked 200 cupcakes to influence a class election really a villain for our times?

The Independent UK

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Paramount

5,176 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.