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 XO, Kitty, Castlevania: Nocturne, The Gorge, and Warfare.
- XO, Kitty: Season 2 – Official Trailer
It’s another semester for Kitty Song Covey, and she swears this time no drama, just school and learning more about who her mom is. Yeah, right. But on that note of family, Noah Centineo will be making an appearance as Peter Kavinsky!
Release Date: On Netflix on January 16, 2025
Synopsis: Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey is back in Seoul for a new semester at KISS. She’s single for the first time in a long time, and ready for a fresh start: no more meddling, no more drama. Maybe just some casual dating. Emphasis on casual. But she has more to worry about than her love life, as a letter from her mother’s past sets her on a wild journey, and new faces at KISS bring change. As secrets unravel and bonds are tested, Kitty will learn that life, family and love are more complicated than she ever imagined.
- Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 – Official Trailer
The vampire hunting adventures continue with Alucard and Richter Belmont in Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2. If the action looked this amazing back on my copy of Castlevania: The Adventure for the GameBoy, then mayhaps I would have finished the game as a wee lad dork.
Release Date: On Netflix on January 16, 2025
Synopsis: Now joined by the legendary Alucard, Richter Belmont and his band of vampire hunters are in a desperate race against time. Erzsebet Báthory, the Vampire Messiah, who already seems invincible, seeks the full power of the goddess Sekhmet so she can plunge the world into endless darkness and terror.
- The Gorge – Official Trailer
Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. Boy and girl are not permitted contact. Girl and boy are stationed across a gorge that is said to be the gate to hell. Boy is Miles Teller and girl is Anya Taylor-Joy. It feels like the subtle cuteness of (500) Days of Summer meets the sexy guns of Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets the monsters in the dark of Gyeongseong Creature.
Release Date: On Apple TV+ on February 14, 2025
Synopsis: Two highly-trained operatives (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it’s too late.
- Warfare – Official Trailer
After Alex Garland and his film Civil War gave me nightmares about being a journalist of color in a divided America, now he returns to tell the story of Warfare, written by Iraq War veteran Mendoza, based on memories and set right in the action.
Release Date: In theaters in 2025
Synopsis: Written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland (Civil War, 28 Days Later), Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of US forces through insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it.
