It seems that Disney is putting more eggs into the digital animation basket here in the Bay Area: they're setting up a studio in our neighbors to the north, Novato. Teaming with director Robert Zemeckis (the genius behind Back to the Future and now the Angelina Jolie animated nudie flick, Beowulf), the pair is forming ImageMovers Digital—a digital animation studio focused on the "Is that really animation or isn't it?" type of filmmaking. Disney......

Criticism is a funny thing. One person loves a piece of art and another hates it. Happens all the time. But today there's a particularly delicious example of this phenomenon to relish. Robert Zemeckis' and Tom Hanks' big new CGI Christmas movie, The Polar Express, opens today nationwide and is reviewed in this morning's papers. Being a bleeding-heart-left-wing-media-elitist, SFist takes both the august New York Times and the venerable San Francisco Chronicle and took great......