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 ...

Beowulf the game, based on the Beowulf movie (which in turn is based on the epic poem), is hitting stores next week. A straight-up action title, Beowulf has you starring as the title character. The ...

Imagine, for a moment, if you will, driving your car into a full-service gas station—a near anachronism—pulling up to the attendant and saying, “Fill'er up, check the oil and wipers, and...give me 20 ...

As the major studios start to position high-profile films for the holiday season, two diverse films — Robert Zemeckis' pop-culture adaptation of the Old English epic poem "Beowulf," and Ridley Scott's ...

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 ...

Anyone with even a passing interest in poetry should recognise that the foundation of this movie is the epic poem Beowulf and not the comic book. Focusing on the human aspect of the story instead of ...

If you’ve been grumbling lately that Hollywood doesn’t make enough semi-animated Middle Ages epics featuring monsters who drool in 3-D, “Beowulf” just might be the movie for you. Grendel, a horrific ...

I just got back from the Waterloo IMAX where I had the pleasure of attending a special screening of Beowulf. Sorry. I mean BEOWULF! The capital letters and the exclamation point are both required. The ...