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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...