The Rose of Versailles (2025) [-] An animated film which -- as far as I can tell from only seeing a bit of the anime series -- is composed of clips from the anime series with perhaps the narrated bits added to glue everything together since the story runs at least a decade. The story focuses on Oscar François de Jarjayes (Caitlin Glass) -- a noble women who trained swordsmanship and joined the royal guards -- and Marie Antoinette (Megan Shipman) -- child princess married to the Dauphin of France (eldest child of the king) whom Oscar is assigned to protect. There is friendship, romance as each falls in love with someone else, and fated tragedy as their political paths start to diverge -- Oscar sympathizes with the oppressed commoners and Marie comes to believe in the infallibility of nobility... Anyway, there is so much skipping and brief scenes that the film does come off as a 2-hour long clip show with brief musical numbers. The characters and plot develop but almost in between scenes so much is skipped.

Bloons TD Battles 2+ (2024) [/] Apple Arcade version of Bloons TD Battles 2. Bloons is a popular cartoony Tower Defense game. In Battles it's you vs an opponent each with an identical map though you each get to choose your heroes. The basic formula is the same: put units out (that don't move for the most part), pop balloons to get coins, use the coins to upgrade units or put out more units. In addition you can spend coins to send a bunch of balloons to the opponent and you have several choices so if you see what he's weak at you can send those balloons. It's an interesting twist if you've tired of regular Bloons.

Crayola Adventures (2024) [/] Kids activity app. Create your persona and friend and as you do stuff the narrator sort of customizes the story for you. I feel it'd be good for about ages 8 to 10 -- my nephew is very creative and would have probably liked this a couple of years ago but at 11 he's more into Roblox.

Casuals with Katie Nolan (2025) [/] Katie Nolan's latest endeavor is a sports podcast that comes out like three times a week and is 1-1/2 to 2 hours per episode including a few minutes of commercials. The audience are new and casual fans and she talks about all sports and sports adjacent stuff. I find it's less about sports and more about athletes doing weird non-sports stuff. Also a lot of ranting. I feel she's trying to be over the top to get more engagement. I've listened for about a month and the first few episodes and I'm starting to skip more and more.