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.

The new film version of Beowulf is upon us, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Angelina Jolie, and Crispin Glover, with Ray Winstone as Beowulf. Zemeckis, whose ...

Gerard Butler is probably most famous for his string of action flicks in the early 2000s and 2010s, but all of these projects pale in comparison to his work in 300. The Zack Snyder-directed film took ...

This week’s Arlington Pets of the Week are Beowulf and Grendel, two bulldogs who enjoy playing together. Here is what their owner, Matthew, had to say about them: Beowulf and his brother from a ...

Coming along like a Viking picture abducted by Monty Python, “Beowulf &Grendel” is so crazy it sometimes works. Other times, this movie seems to have taken a wrong turn in its remote Icelandic ...

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, ...

‘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 ...