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.

Among the horrors perpetrated by the Isis brain trust last year was one that took me longer than usual to process. This particular PR stunt didn’t produce dead bodies. It didn’t have a catchy, ...

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 ...

Beowulf & Grendel is an epic revisionist adventure that asks, "Was the legendary beastie Grendel a monster, or merely misunderstood? Dude, aren't we all, like, monsters of some sort?" Previous ...

Dir: Sturla Gunnarsson.Can-UK-Ice. 2005. 103mins. Beowulf And Grendel is a handsomely mounted retelling of the ancientAnglo-Saxon classic from the early Middle Ages, the period in which a ...

Beowulf & Grendel: In a medieval Norse setting, the warrior Beowulf sets out to help King Hrothgar by confronting the formidable monster Grendel, who threatens the peace of a village. The film ...