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.

Alex Welch
Experience:
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35 Most Anticipated TV Shows of Summer 2025
From “The Summer I Turned Pretty” Season 3 on Prime Video and Disney+’s “Ironheart” to “Wednesday” Season 2 on Netflix and FX’s “Alien: Earth”
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‘Happy Gilmore 2’ Trailer: Adam Sandler’s Unlikely Golfer Returns for Another Round
The sequel arrives July 25 on Netflix
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The 7 Best Psychological Thrillers Streaming on Max Right Now
Both well-known hits and smaller, oft-forgotten hidden gems await
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Sean Hannity Shocks Himself in Stephen A. Smith Interview: ‘I Hate to Do This, I’ve Got to Compliment You’ | Video
“To me, if you had two eyes and you could see, you saw what the hell was going on,” Smith says of President Biden’s cognitive decline
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Where to Watch ‘The Phoenician Scheme’: Is Wes Anderson’s New Movie Streaming?
Benicio del Toro leads the ensemble comedy
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Ariana Grande Joins ‘Meet the Parents 4’ With Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro
“I Love You, Man” filmmaker John Hamburg will direct the sequel
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Here’s What’s New on HBO and Max in June 2025
“The Gilded Age” Season 3 and “A Minecraft Movie” are both coming to the streamer this month
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‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Stars and Creator Break Down Finale Twist, Tease Season 2
“In a place where nobody is really who they seem to be, it would make sense that a murder isn’t necessarily a murder,” Jonathan Tropper tells TheWrap
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Netflix Casts Anthony Boyle, Julia Garner in Sam Bankman-Fried Limited Series ‘The Altruists’
The “Ozark” Emmy winner will play Caroline Ellison alongside Boyle’s FTX founder for co-showrunners Graham Moore and Jacqueline Hoyt
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Lawrence O’Donnell Toasts Trump’s ‘Worldwide Humiliation’ Over Tariffs: ‘Those Proposals Were Constitutionally Insane’ | Video
“It’s over. The Trump tariff madness ends now,” the MSNBC host says
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‘Expedition Unknown’ Host Josh Gates Toured OceanGate Titan Sub in 2021 and Found It ‘Non-Functional’ | Video
“The dive was interesting in that nothing really worked right. The sub didn’t really do anything it was asked to do,” the Discovery star says in “Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster”
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‘Morning Joe’ Faintly Praises Trump for Putin Pushback, but Warns: ‘They’re Trying to Goad Him’ | Video
“Vladimir Putin plays by his own rules on his own timeline, and he spends as much time as he can trying to sucker American presidents,” host Joe Scarborough says
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Lawrence O’Donnell Says Trump Is Unworthy of Being President After Memorial Day Message
“Joe Biden never, ever, ever said anything like what Donald Trump just said,” the “Last Word” anchor notes
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‘The Last of Us’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap: Where Is Abby?
Blood is shed in a finale that chooses to press reset rather than bring things to an end
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The 7 Best Hidden Gems Streaming on Prime Video Right Now
Give these harder-to-find films a shot














