Beowulf" is an amazingly visualized take on an epic poem. The movie uses realistic computer animation to make the characters on the screen almost as real as living, breathing actors. In the movie, ...

Even if you didn’t know the legend of Beowulf, you’d get a pretty good idea of what you were in for with the new adaptation premiering on the Esquire Network on Saturday, Jan. 23, from the opening ...

Hrothgar, son of Halfdene, was favoured in war, and ordered men to build a great mead hall. It was named Heorot, but a grim demon, Grendel was his name, a descendent of Cain, a God-cursed brute, ...

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.

At a point where "Anything: The Musical" is pretty much the operative principle, "Beowulf" nonetheless raises eyebrows as obscurantist by pop-culture standards, nevermind the recent "performance ...

Being Anglo-Saxon we revere the past, but only so far as it fits with our present. Take Beowulf, the oldest surviving piece of literature in the English language, which is about to re-emerge into the ...

‘BEOWULF,” you may recall, is a ninth-century epic poem traditionally foisted on students by sadistic teachers. Most people graduate with no memory of its content beyond the presence of swords, a ...

In "Beowulf & Grendel," the first epic poem in the English language receives a rendition that's about half as good and half as harsh as it needed to be. Icelandic-shot version of the legendary revenge ...