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 “RAFA”, “Office Romance”, “The Birthday Party”, and “Stop! That! Train!”.
- RAFA – Trailer
Rafael ‘Rafa’ Nadal is a tennis legend with countless titles and accolades, starting his professional career in 2001 at the age of 14. After taking time off in 2023 to recover from injuries, he returned in 2024 and would retire by the end of that year. The documentary series “RAFA” is set to tell his story from early childhood to his competitive return, as well as trials and tribulations of his champion mindset limited only by his physical body.
Release Date: On Netflix on May 29, 2026
Synopsis: RAFA retraces Nadal’s remarkable journey with cinematic scope, combining testimonies from those who know him best – on and off the court – with unseen moments that reveal what lies behind the legend. From his beginnings at just three years old to his return to competition in 2024, the documentary not only shows the evolution of a champion, but also the physical and emotional toll that has shaped his path, as he faces time and again Nadal’s most constant rival: his own body. RAFA spotlights a candid and vulnerable superstar, and each episode goes beyond tennis to explore the life, story, and legacy of an unparalleled icon.
- Office Romance – Trailer
“Ted Lasso” developer/writer Joe Kelly and cast member Brett Goldstein linked up to write “Office Romance” where Goldstein costars with J.Lo in a romcom that is best described by its title. With Kelly’s experience on “How I Met Your Mother” as an executive producer and writer, I’m sure this romcom will hit all the marks for a love story audiences will adore.
Release Date: On Netflix on June 5, 2026
Synopsis: Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein lead this charming and raunchy romantic comedy. Lopez plays a powerful CEO and Goldstein is her airline’s newest lawyer. Their secret Office Romance takes off when these two workaholics stop playing by the rules and start following their hearts.
- The Birthday Party – Trailer
Even at age 70, Willem Dafoe (“Poor Things”, “The Lighthouse”) is full of energy and captures the attention in every scene he’s in. This time in “The Birthday Party”, the clock turns back to take audiences to a story in the 1970s as he plays a successful business man that controls the lives of those around him as much as possible, reminiscent of Logan Roy from “Succession”, but with only one heir in his daughter, Sofia. This fatherly affection also reminds me of Dafoe’s past role in the “Poor Things” as Dr. Godwin Baxter, the mad scientist who revives a woman and becomes her pseudo-father.
Release Date: In theaters on June 5, 2026
Synopsis: The story is set in the late 1970s somewhere in the Mediterranean, where Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for Sofia, his daughter and sole heiress, on his exclusive private island. The party is a perfect excuse for various people in his life to approach him with their own agendas. But Marcos, who is used to ruthlessly controlling everything and everyone around him at whatever cost, is also secretly plotting a big decision on his daughter’s behalf.
Sofia, however, has come to share some important news of her own. As guests start pouring in and night falls, the party grows rowdier and more decadent, while the inevitable clash between Marcos and Sofia reaches a heartbreaking climax.
- Stop! That! Train! – Trailer
From the director of “Hairspray” and the producers of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” comes “Stop! That! Train!”, the greatest trainwreck in herstory. Numerous alumni from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” star in the film as well as RuPaul Andre Charles himself.
Release Date: In theaters on June 12, 2026
Synopsis: Best friends Tess and DeeDee are train stewardesses who trade their dreary shifts on the Stank Rail for the glitzy Glamazonian Express. When a catastrophic “Stormaganza” threatens to derail the high-speed train and crash it into Los Angeles, the duo in coach must join forces with the snobby first class attendants and President Gagwell to save the day in this wild ride of camp and comedy.
