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 ...

Leave it to Robert Zemeckis – relentless innovator and elite box-office showman – to turn a centuries-old Anglo-Saxon poem into the year’s most gloriously entertaining action movie. Like the dragon ...

In a time of heroes, the mighty warrior Beowulf slays the demon Grendel and incurs the wrath of its monstrous yet seductive mother in a conflict that transforms a king into a legend. Groundbreaking ...

Angelina Jolie’s lips look even fuller than usual. She’s emerging naked from a pool of dank cave water, rivulets of gold streaming gently down her body. “Giiiif meee sonnnn,” she coos, in an Old ...

If you think reading the epic poem “Beowulf” in high school or college was a misery, try sitting through Robert Zemeckis’ digitally animated version on an IMAX screen in 3-D. It’s a full-fledged ...

LITTLE ROCK — "Iam ripper! ... tearer! ... slasher! ..." is how the hero Beowulf says hello in the current movie version of the ancient poem. "Beowulf," the poem ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Beowulf” does not translate well into Hollywoodese, to judge by the new sex-sword-and-dragon epic of that title starring Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone and ...

The oldest work of English literature gets a complete 21st Century makeover in Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf” movie, opening Friday. But screenwriters Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman, like most American high ...

Robert Zemeckis’ new film “Beowulf” gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “the sublime and the ridiculous.” Zemeckis took the oldest and most important text of our ur-language, and turned it into a ...