Required viewing from the week in movies.

Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" looks (and sounds) surprisingly Anderson-like for a stop-motion animated movie based on the classic Roald Dahl story. Guess you can take the director out of live-action, but you can't take Jason Schwartzman off his speed dial.

Also in theaters:
-- It's "2012"! Everyone run away in slow motion from the CGI earthquake!
-- "Pirate Radio" finds Philip Seymour Hoffman as a 1960s radio DJ who looks suspiciously like his music critic character from "Almost Famous." Give that guy a spin-off!
-- The indie drama "Women in Trouble" features Carla Gugino, Connie Britton ("Friday Night Lights") and E's girlfriend on "Entourage" as porn stars and other assorted characters whose stories collide on one crazy day. It's another of those "everyone is connected" movies, but with substantially more T&A than, say, "Babel."