The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has released a trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean - The Canine Calamity

"Barnaby Joyce…"

And they even brought back Hugh Keays-Byrne, the Toecutter from the first movie, as this outing's villain. Ol' Hugh still does a nice line in creepy menace, even through a skull-faced respirator.

The etymology suggests it may be a Cobra Demon, though the jury is still very much out on that matter.

"Syrio."

Bite your tongue.

As riot suppression goes, a bunch of spearmen with shields fighting in close order can accomplish quite a lot in a confined space. Not much gets past.

"Shut up! It looks cool!"

That's one helluva hall pass though.

At least, the Fox and Sony versions are despised.

I saw the Julie Christie/Alan Bates version many years ago, and I have to say that even as a boy of eight, I developed quite the crush on Bathsheba Everdene..

And now I want to move to Chicago, or as I like to think of it, 'my youth'. I'll settle for sending my youngest son instead.

My brother saw the seance sequence and asked, "My God, does that woman live on scenery?"

I didn't see it, as I thought the thesis of the film was too weak. Oxford was a notoriously vain and arrogant man, and I can't see him portrayed in a hagiographic style.

If we avoid trash because of an unshakeable gut feeling that going to be trash, does that count as spiteful avoidance?

And now we're judging you for going to Wendy's!

…as I all too well knew you would!

Jeez, Drew, I always thought Ween were a castrated version of They Might Be Giants. With kindergarten-level vocabulary thrown in for good measure.

Julius Caesar on an Aldis lamp comes a close second.

"I'm lookin' for Mike Hawk! Anybody here seen Mike Hawk?"