“Beowulf” does not translate well into Hollywoodese, to judge by the new sex-sword-and-dragon epic of that title starring Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie. But it does ...

What have they done to Beowulf, everyone's least favorite Old English epic about a hero's battles with a monster, the monster's mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later?

And so Headley’s Beowulf is a rambling, boastful, word-drunk poem, one where a worshipful young soldier “stanned for Beowulf,” while Beowulf himself “began, sick-hearted, to hear his death ...

Maria Dahvana Headley, whose new translation of “Beowulf” came out last year, wanted to build onto the thousand-year-old poem’s long history. Part of its staying power, Headly said, is how ...

Beowulf, of precarious provenance—the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th-century library fire—has traveled across a thousand years to lodge in our ...

Beowulf the game, based on the Beowulf movie (which in turn is based on the epic poem), ... Lecherous Trolls Troll is another name for giant or J¿ten in Norse mythology.

Beowulf Hands-On. We play through a four-level demo of Ubisoft's movie-inspired action adventure game. ... The game is based on the upcoming Paramount movie of the same name, ...

Jeff Bridges is set to star as classic monster Grendel in a new live-action movie from the storied Jim Henson Company and director Robert D. Krzykowsk.. Palisades Park Pictures is set to launch ...

The forerunners of today’s superheroes can be found in chivalric romance, legend and . . . real life. Michael Dirda reviews “The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger” by Jess Nevins.

Beowulf auto targets whatever enemy he is facing, so most encounters can be beaten by simply mashing the game’s unsophisticated combos (X; X,Y; X,X,Y; X,X,X,Y etc) While these combos can be ...