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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Jeff Bridges and Dave Bautista have been cast in Grendel, a new live-action Beowulf adaptation that comes from The Jim Henson Company. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Bridges will play the titular monster ...

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 ...

To solicit from a medievalist a review of Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf is to pick a quarrel unlikely to be evaded. The eminent Cambridge classicist Richard Bentley famously put down Alexander Pope’s ...

There’s something monstrous in the heart of America — literally. In Grendel, Kentucky, an upcoming series from upstart publisher Artists, Writers & Artisans, the Beowulf story gets updated and ...

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 ...