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.

"Beowulf" is a classic tale that stretches back to the Middle Ages. The heroic poem is the oldest vernacular epic from Europe and one of the greatest compositions in the history of English literature.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...