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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angelina Jolie identified with her character's maternal feelings in "Beowulf." Nov. 5, 2007 — -- The oldest known story in the English language comes to the silver screen this month as the epic ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...