But is that enough to help turn “Beowulf” into a hit ... Gaiman have tried to give the Middle Ages classic a modern spin. Grendel’s mother, which some translators have described as a ...

she replies, “I know that underneath your glamour, you’re as much a monster as my son Grendel.” The film cleverly ties Beowulf’s final monster fight to the earlier episodes with Grendel ...

The 2007 uncanny valley version of Beowulf ... into a fight with us about the recent motion picture Beowulf. My friends and I insisted it sucked. This guy said, “Yeah, but I think Grendel ...

Is Beowulf a good movie? On this exam, mark Y for Yes. It’s got power and depth, and two kings whose greatness is diluted by hubris, and a thrilling dragon fight, and the demon Grendel as a ...

Beowulf: Great King of the Danes, we have heard of Grendel and that is why we have come. I pledge that I will fight this creature and defeat him. I will not go home until Grendel is dead!

To begin with, there’s the action: kinetic, enthralling fight scenes that go on ... now stalked by Grendel—a bare-handed Beowulf fights the monster, rips his arm off, and nails it over the ...

Who are you calling a troll? The Grendel in question in Beowulf & Grendel, a muscular, ardently naturalistic retelling of the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon saga, may be on a bloody tear, and Tomb ...

Later, the narrator tells us that Unferth “unexpectedly stanned” Beowulf by lending him a sword for the fight with Grendel’s mother. But Headley’s “Beowulf” also has moments of more ...