Beaks here...

Thus far, all we know about Christopher Nolan's INCEPTION is that it is a contemporary science-fiction thriller "set inside the architecture of the mind." This might be frustratingly vague for some, but it's good enough for me. All I need to know is that one of the world's most talented filmmakers is hard at work shooting a brainy sci-fi flick on a $200 million budget with the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy (about to blow you away in BRONSON), Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine and the criminally underappreciated Tom Berenger. That's a murderer's row of acting talent right there. So I'm pleased that the just-released teaser trailer for INCEPTION, which debuted this weekend in front of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, gives us nothing more than a tagline ("Your mind is the scene of the crime") and the promise of a bizarre, gravity-defying fight in the hallway of an office building. I have no idea what's going on in this sequence, but it looks fucking spectacular. I assume that the set is on a gimbal, but that doesn't explain why, as seen in the below picture, the combatants are crashing into the ceiling with considerable velocity while that cart is just idly bouncing about on the floor.

Very cool. Make sure to watch the trailer in HD. And try not to get too worked up, as the film isn't due out until next July.