Here’s a funny thing about digital video: it makes Christian Bale disappear. His cheekbones recede into his face, and those glittering gimlet eyes turn a dull black. All the charisma and personality he can muster on film just goes away.

Moon takes place in and around a remote mining station on the dark side of the moon, where a lone human occupant, Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), supervises the automated extraction of a substance called Helium-3 from the lunar surface. His job is to tend to the machinery and send the harvested material back to Earth to be turned into clean, abundant energy.

The original Ice Age told its modest story with some visual zing, and Ice Age: The Meltdown nudged the story along by giving Manny the mammoth a girlfriend. Chapter three, Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, has nowhere to go but backward.

Finn On The Fly is well titled – it’s a family film on autopilot.

The Argentine writer/director Daniel Burman makes tidy little movies about people and emotions. Parents figure out how to connect to their kids, young men find their place in the world, while older men endure mid-life crises – no big whoop.