Alex is an Audience Writer at TheWrap, based in Los Angeles. He has been covering the entertainment industry since 2013. Before joining TheWrap in 2025, he worked as a critic and reporter for A.frame, Digital Trends, Inverse, IGN, Looper, and multiple other outlets. A lifelong cinephile, he dreams of one day being invited to the Criterion Closet.
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Jimmy Fallon Jokes That Trump Sees Himself and President Xi as ‘Dictators With Benefits’ | Video
“Xi said that U.S.-China relations will be defined by ‘stability.’ Yeah, because when you think of Trump, you think stability,” the “Tonight Show” host says
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‘The Daily Show’ Reacts to Clip of Trump After China Summit: ‘What Happened in There?’ | Video
“That’s my president! Putting his understanding of geopolitics into fast food terms,” host Jordan Klepper jokes
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How ‘Widow’s Bay’ Turned a ‘Real Departure’ Into One of the Best TV Episodes of the Year
“It’s an actor’s dream,” star Kate O’Flynn tells TheWrap of her spotlight moment in the Apple TV series
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Kash Patel’s ‘Basically Bogus’ FBI Stats Fact Checked Live on MS NOW: ‘Gaming the System’
“Patel is claiming credit for things that really aren’t real,” MS Now Justice and Intelligence correspondent Ken Dilanian says
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Chris Hayes Explains Trump’s IRS Lawsuit: ‘The Greatest Heist in American History’ | Video
“This is what life looks like under a mad king,” the MS NOW anchor says
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Adam McKay Slams Democratic Party, ‘White Moneyed Liberals’ as ‘The Worst’ | Video
“They’re getting a lot from this broken system,” the “Don’t Look Up” and “Step Brothers” director says
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Rachel Maddow Applauds Makers of Anti-Trump Iran War Arcade Game: ‘Long May They Wave’ | Video
“I spent way too much time with this today,” the MS NOW host says of “Epic Furious”
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Cannes: Guillermo del Toro Slams AI Defenders Who Think Art Can Be Made With a ‘F—king App’
“We are, unfortunately, in times that make this movie more pertinent than ever,” the filmmaker says, following a retrospective screening of his 2006 dark fantasy “Pan’s Labyrinth”
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Cannes Jury Member Paul Laverty Slams Blacklisting of Actors Who Oppose Gaza War: ‘Shame on Hollywood’
“They’re the best of us, I look up to them,” the “I, Daniel Blake” screenwriter says
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‘Morning Joe’ Lists Trump Administration’s Many Hypocrisies: ‘Are They Stupid?’ | Video
“It’s not that they’re stupid, I think it’s that they’re shameless,” MS NOW co-host Jonathan Lemire adds
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‘Morning Joe’ Explains Trump’s Boredom With Iran War: ‘He Looks Extraordinarily Weak’ | Video
“He can’t leave unless he just wants to be seen as a weaker president than Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush,” host Joe Scarborough says
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Nicolle Wallace Tells Chris Hayes Truth Social Is Trump’s ‘Padded Room’ | Video
“One of the things that allowed him to win in 2024 was getting kicked off Twitter,” her fellow MS NOW anchor suggests
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‘SNL’: Matt Damon’s Brett Kavanaugh, Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel Bond Over Drinks in Cold Open Hangout | Video
The trio of Trump appointees sing “Tubthumping” and proclaim, “We’re gonna live forever!”
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Where to Watch ‘Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft’: Is the Concert Movie Streaming?
“Avatar” director James Cameron co-directed the new film
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From Music Videos to ‘Widow’s Bay’: How Hiro Murai Became TV’s Most In-Demand Director
The “Atlanta” filmmaker opens up to TheWrap about his journey from music video auteur to the directorial shepherd of some of the most esteemed shows of the past decade
