What exactly happened with Wes Anderson? Rushmore is still one of my favorite movies, but I lost my taste for his particular brand of whimsy when his movies became more focused on the footwear than the storylines (not to name names or anything, Life Aquatic).

I want to say that the trailer for his latest film, in which Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrian Brody play brothers attempting a spiritual journey through India, seems like a return to form. And there's certainly a lot to like about it -- funny dialogue, beautiful cinematography, and Adrian Brody (he can rescue me from a giant ape any day). But somehow I'm still left a bit cold. Maybe it's just because even in these two and a half minutes, I feel slapped in the face by how clever Anderson thinks he is being. Nothing wrong with letting your characters smile a little, Wes. Nothing wrong with it.

Five years after he channeled Douglas Sirk all the way to four Oscar nods with Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes is about to deliver his devout fans another curveball. While we haven't seen anything yet, it's safe to say that his new film, I'm Not There, won't exactly give the life story of Bob Dylan the same kind of treatment Ray or Walk the Line did for their respective real-life music-genius subjects.

Why? Well, for one, six people are playing Bob Dylan, including Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere and, yes, Ms. Cate Blanchett. Last week, footage of the film was leaked on YouTube showing Blanchett in all her drag glory. An obvious nod to D.A Pennebaker's Don't Look Back, the clip also features the hilarious David Cross playing none other than Allen Ginsburg. I'm Not There comes out this fall.

This kind of thing doesn't happen in the upper reaches of Hollywood. J.J. Abrams, one of the hottest non-actors in Hollywood (he created Lost as well as directed Mission: Impossible III), doesn't just come out of nowhere with a new movie. Especially if that movie is what seems to be a mega-budget disaster flick set in New York. But that's exactly what happened last week, when a teaser trailer screened before Transformers. And it's big, like Statue-Liberty-crashing-down-in-the -middle-of-Midtown big.

The film is known as both Cloverfield and Clover, but neither its IMDb page nor its official Web site gives any detailed information whatsoever, except for the fact that it's coming out next January. After a few cameraphone-captured versions of the trailer surfaced last week, Paramount finally posted an official version to the Apple trailer page.

At his always-excellent indieWIRE blog, Matt Dentler has been on top of the story, and so have his readers -- one comment mentions a page that lists the myriad theories surrounding the film. Stay tuned to find out if any of them turn out to be true.

Playing in theaters before Ratatouille, this trailer for Pixar's next animation classic-to-be is a teaser in more ways than one. The animation looks stunning and the character design is full of charm -- but this is still only the barest glimpse of a plucky little robot's quest for something bigger and better.

The rest of the teaser is devoted to a retrospective of Pixar's greatest hits, implying that Wall-E is cut from the same cloth as Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. From any other company, such parading of past hits might seem grandious. But if any company has earned the right to brag in this fashion, it's Pixar. I'm looking forward to watching this teaser again this weekend -- on the big screen.