Witness the legendary first encounter between Beowulf and Grendel, a monster that terrorized Heorot’s great hall. This is the ...

In his final battle, Beowulf faces a monstrous dragon threatening his kingdom. This legendary showdown marks the end of a ...

Beowulf isn't just significant in English literary history - it is set in Denmark and was actually first translated from the Anglo-Saxon into Danish. As Prof Burn says, the Danes "see it as their ...

Beowulf In The Suburbs? 'The Mere Wife' Is An Epic Retelling For too long the Old English poem has long been perceived as a "masculine text," says Maria Dahvana Headley.

Beowulf is, indeed, a doughty warrior, and his friend Breca (Gísli Orn Garoarsson) is as wily as he is charming. Soon enough they are off chasing Grendel, ...

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’: In some copies of Wednesday’s Calendar section, an article about Robert Zemeckis’ new movie, “Beowulf,” said that Crispin Glover, who portrays Grendel, ...

Beowulf will roll out in the largest 3-D release of any film to date, including Imax 3D. While 2-D prints will certainly play well, Zemeckis has brilliantly designed the movie for 3-D, ...

“Beowulf”—in which the eponymous hero, a man of gigantic, and perhaps supernatural, strength, defends King Hrothgar and the Danes against Grendel, a part man, part monster who is plaguing ...

But Beowulf executes the same attacks over and over, and the guy himself isn't very cool-looking. His weird Viking ponytail looks awful, and some of the other textures look last-generation.

It might be based on an ancient saga, but Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf” is ushering in a very modern era of filmmaking. The ambitious motion-capture animated film from Paramount/Warner Bros ...