In “Beowulf,” actor Ray Winstone plays Beowulf, and Crispin Glover gives life to the monster Grendel. Chen describes some of the painstaking detail that went into making the characters believable.

Gunnarssons film goes a step further by introducing four new characters (Grendel's father, Grendel's son, a witch named Selma, and Father Brendan). Consequently, several new plot points exist.

Beowulf, the famous poem written sometime between the seventh and tenth centuries in the Anglo-Saxon language known as Old English, and about the heroic battles of a brave warrior against two ...

Dusty Old English poem Beowulf, long required reading in schools, went Hollywood on Friday in a bit of high-tech animated movie trickery that its makers are loath to call "animation.". The story ...

People have been telling monster stories since Grendal terrorized the King Hrothar’s people in “Beowulf,” an epic Old English poem more than 1,000 years old. “There’s a very strong case ...

Okay, sit still. I have a lot of things to say about Maria Dahvana Headley's new book, Beowulf, and I'm gonna try to say them all right now. It is Beowulf, mostly. Beowulf, kinda. It is Beowulf ...

Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang, Ruth Franklin writes.