Pop culture is a never-ending world of updates, teases, trailers, and hopefully releases. What’s New Wednesday is Dorkaholics’ way to keep us all up to date with what’s new across comics, TV, film, games, and more! This week, the focus is on Highest 2 Lowest, Long Story Short, The Conjuring: Last Rites, and Regretting You.
- Highest 2 Lowest – Trailer
Based on the legendary Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, director Spike Lee reinterprets the film as Highest 2 Lowest and stars Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright. From the trailer alone, I’m in love with the dialogue, especially with where I am in life:
“There’s more to life than just making money. There’s integrity. There’s what you stand for.”
“I think you got to be a little crazy sometimes in this world to get what you want.”
Release Date: In theaters on August 15, 2025 and on Apple TV+ on September 5, 2025
Synopsis: When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City.
- Long Story Short – Trailer
If you’ve been missing the comedic dialogue and emotional vulnerability of BoJack Horseman, the creator is back with a new animated series that has already been approved for a second season! Do you ever feel like your life involves stories that take place over various different moments in your life? Well Long Story Short uses the storytelling medium of animation to enhance its stories through flashforwards and flashbacks to tell those stories that take place across a lifetime and how they intersect.
Release Date: On Netflix on August 22, 2025
Synopsis: Long Story Short is an animated comedy from the creator of BoJack Horseman about one family, over time. Jumping through the years, we follow the Schwooper siblings from childhood to adulthood and back again, chronicling their triumphs, disappointments, joys, and compromises.
- The Conjuring: Last Rites – Trailer
This is it. The Conjuring: Last Rites is setting itself up as a conclusion to the stories of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, which means this may be the last time audiences get to see Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson in this franchise. Is there any way The Conjuring films can continue without their iconic duo? We do have the spinoff films such as Annabelle and The Nun which have set the precedent for stories that explore the items the Warrens have collected as well as the origins of demons they have come in contact with.
Release Date: In theaters on September 5, 2025
Synopsis: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren try to vanquish a demon from a family’s home.
- Regretting You – Trailer
While one can ascertain what the shocking secret might be at the center of Regretting You based on the trailer, it’s clear that this film is going to be about the fondness we develop for this cast of characters as well as the journeys of growth they will have to undergo emerging on the other end of a terrible family tragedy.
Release Date: In theaters on October 24, 2025
Synopsis: Morgan Grant and her daughter Clara explore what’s left behind after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover each other.
