The new film version of Beowulf is upon us, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Angelina Jolie, and Crispin Glover, with Ray Winstone as Beowulf. Zemeckis, whose ...

There’s something monstrous in the heart of America — literally. In Grendel, Kentucky, an upcoming series from upstart publisher Artists, Writers & Artisans, the Beowulf story gets updated and ...

To solicit from a medievalist a review of Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf is to pick a quarrel unlikely to be evaded. The eminent Cambridge classicist Richard Bentley famously put down Alexander Pope’s ...

Lookout: Who are you, strangers? Beowulf: My friend, we are Geats and we come in peace. I am Beowulf and I wish to speak with Hrothgar, your king. Lookout: If you are truly the famous Beowulf then I ...

The giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, “I am Beowulf, and I’m here to kill your monster.” That’s how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero.

The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf ...

Grendel is an upcoming epic fantasy drama film starring Jeff Bridges and Dave Bautista. The plot revolves around Grendel as he contemplates his life as a monster and his largely antagonistic ...