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 ...

There is, first of all, Grendel, a man-eating creature who makes nightly visits to the mead hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, where he snacks on sleeping Danes until the poem's hero, Beowulf ...

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

He repels a Grendel attack on Mead Hall ... They and their parents will be wowed by the battle scenes, a nifty sea-monster montage and Beowulf’s climactic dogfight with a dragon.

The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one's entirely sure how to pronounce it – and, as Headley explains, that same word is used to describe Beowulf and his three antagonists: Grendel, Grendel's ...

Let's face it: A retelling of Beowulf will never appeal to the masses ... and their life together turns out much as she expected. Then Grendel attacks. As Wealtheow says, "We went to sleep that ...