ROUND UP

n overdue nod to Screen Anime, an ongoing “online film festival” (subscription £3.98 a month). Their latest slate includes 2016’s (VOD, available until 25 July);, it sees a troubled runaway falling into the orbit of a poor orphan girl who can control the weather. We said: “It’s hard not to be swept up by its bighearted melodrama, lavish visuals and sincere environmentalism, but the premise isn’t as enthralling at ’s.” Another streaming debut is the bewildering (VOD, out now), available on the Arrow Video Channel via Amazon Prime or Apple TV (subs £4.99 a month). Mashing up exploitation tropes and featuring “Batfro” (a tubby black Batman) and laser-eyed fly-men, it centres on a VR realm where people’s jittery avatars wear cardboard masks of the famous (Stalin, Princess Anne…). Expect a trash aesthetic; a crudely dubbed, very non-Hollywood cast; bathetic dialogue; and a soundtrack of chiptune bangers and discordant jazz. Memorably odd, but good luck making sense of it… Finally, (Blu-ray/DVD, 27 July) adapts Stephen King’s 2018 novel over 10 parts. A police procedural with a supernatural twist, it centres on a baseball coach suspected of raping and murdering a child; there’s watertight evidence that he did, but equally strong evidence that he couldn’t have. We said: “Soon becomes an exercise in slow-burn… It should be irritating. Instead it’s mesmerising.”