While I grew up on Popeye cartoons (it was the only way my parents could convince me to eat spinach as a kid), I didn’t have much faith that Sony’s new CG animated Popeye movie would recapture the spirit of the classic Fleischer cartoons. That was until Genndy Tartakovsky came on board as the director. With the likes of Dexter’s …

I’ve got a soft spot in me heart for Popeye. This is a character that has been around for decades, using legal growth hormone spinach to get out of sticky situations and save the day. There’s something about the early cartoons from the Fleischer series that are still watchable to this day, a certain magic that subsequent adaptations have been …

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With Jack and Jill and That’s My Boy both releasing in South Africa this year, Hotel Transylvania could have completed the Adam Sandler trifecta of awfulness. After all the funnyman does more than lend his voice to this animated comedy – he’s executive produced it as well, with his wife and daughter providing dialogue for a few minor characters. Hotel …

Six new movies open in South Africa today… although I’m sure the geek and comic-loving crowd have eyes for one film only. Last Updated: September 28, 2012

He had a little boy genius teach us how to say cheese omelette in French, gave us one of the coolest Star Wars villains (who George Lucas then promptly nerfed into a robotic, multi-limbed asthmathic), and soon Genndy Tartakovsky will be putting his own spin on the classic movie monsters in his first feature film, the animated Hotel Transylvania. But what …

Huk huk huk! Avast ye landslubbers, cus ol’ Popeye be making yeks another retoins, this time wit de help of his ol’ pal, Gendy Tartakovskis huk huk huk huk! Woo, that’s the last time that I take a puff from Popeye’s pipe. That tobacco is wacko indeed. Last Updated: June 26, 2012