[Excerpt 1: The men’s room of the Scyldhrooneogar Marriott. June 5, 438 A.D., 11:38 p.m.] KING HROTHGAR: Unnnnnnhhhh. BEOWULF: Aaaaaaaarrrhhh. KING HROTHGAR: Ehhhnffff. BEOWULF: What the hell do they ...

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 down ...

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.

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Beowulf, of precarious provenance—the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th-century library fire—has traveled across a thousand years to lodge in our imagination ...

If you must see "Beowulf," try to catch it in one of the 1,000 theaters where it will be shown in 3-D. Otherwise you will miss the full effect of the most visceral depiction of monster drool the ...

The movie can be seen with three 3D projection technologies: Imax, Real D, and Dolby 3D. Herewith, I declare a winner in technical quality. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

What have they done to Beowulf, everyone’s least favorite Old English epic about a hero’s battles with a monster, the monster’s mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later? Director ...