ITV is continuing to grow its homegrown genre TV offerings, with the announcement of a 13-part series based on the ancient hero Beowulf. Described as "essentially a western set in the Dark Ages of ...

There's a vitally important word in the epic tale of Beowulf and, according to Maria Dahvana Headley, it's been translated incorrectly for a very long time. The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one's ...

Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf” comes to theatres Friday. “Alexander,” “Troy,” “300” – now the Anglo-Saxon poem “Beowulf” can be added to the list of ancient, epic tales turned into movies in recent years.

the name of the mighty Odin, what this movie needs is an audience that knows how to laugh. Laugh, I tell you, laugh! Has the spirit of irony been lost in the land? By all the gods, if it were not for ...

Hold the phone! I thought this was supposed to be Robert Zemeckis' "Beowulf," not Madame Tussaud's. The photo-realistic, computer-generated characters in Zemeckis' bold take on the epic Old English ...

In the half-century since Hollywood first flirted with 3-D movies, the special glasses required for viewing have gotten a whole lot more substantial. The stories being filmed, however, are just as ...

Once upon a time – when the world was still considered flat and Britain was not even England yet – there lived a story so wonderful that it continues to be told today. VOA's Rebecca Ward has more on ...

It began as a pagan poem told around shadowy campfires about a hero fighting the monster Grendel, the monster’s mother and a dragon. Christendom’s world of saints and sinners reinvented Beowulf as a ...

As the cold sting of winter finally starts to fade, so the literary festival season edges closer. An addition to the line-up this year is a five-day celebration of the legendary saga of Beowulf. How ...