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 ...
To be completely honest, I was not ready for Beowulf. After watching the trailers and reading a few early reviews I thought I knew what to expect. You might have read some of the same things I did ...
It isn’t often that a premedieval poem morphsinto a No.1 movie more than 1,000 years later. But “Beowulf” did just that this weekend, earning $28.1 million at the box office – double the take for the ...
GRAPHIC:Extreme brutality, violence, murder, mayhem and nudity – produced in stunningly beautiful animation. A perfect contradiction: you must see the incredible computer graphics, but that doesn’t ...
The more I hear about the upcoming Neil Gaiman-penned Beowulf (slated for release in late November), the more reasons I have to believe that this film is going to be awesome. First of all, it's a ...
During its recent Ubidays event in Paris, Ubisoft announced that it would be publishing the much-discussed, but still mysterious Beowulf game based on the upcoming movie of the same name. The epic ...
It has been 17 years since the legendary Hollywood director Robert Zemeckis leaped the integration of animation and motion capture in cinema through his film Beowulf. The adult animated fantasy action ...
It began as a pagan poem told around shadowy campfires about a hero fighting the monster Grendel, the monster’s mother and a dragon. Christendom’s world of saints and sinners reinvented Beowulf as a ...
I have never read Beowulf. I own a recent paperback translation (w/ explanatory footnotes) by Howell D. Chickering, Jr. but owning is not the same as reading. For one thing, I don't even like regular ...
The great hero Beowulf, wrestling with the monster Grendel, split the sinews of his foe and snapped his arm off at the shoulder. Going up against the monster's mother, he slammed her to the earth, ...