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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beowulf-- it's one of the most important and influential texts of all time, An epic poem detailing the life and exploits of the titular character, the story begins with a fight against Grendel, a ...

And exciting. Beowulf, a young, valiant and strong hero, travels from his own land of the Geats (in what is now southwestern Sweden) to fight Grendel, a man-eating monster who terrorizes Heorot ...

Beowulf & Grendel is an epic adventure film depicting ... they are overwhelmingly outnumbered by Xerxes warriors. They put up a hard fight and even though they are all killed in the end, they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Beowulf” famously opens with a storyteller ... Then Grendel’s mother shows up. He has to fight Grendel’s mother, and he kills her. Then 50 years pass, and he has to fight a dragon ...

This is quite a unique approach to the classic story, as Grendel is portrayed similarly to Beowulf. Both fight for the sake of honor, revenge, and family, yet Beowulf and Hrothgar's actions are ...

You are Beowulf, and you go to rescue a kingdom from the yoke of a monster called Grendel. You quickly succeed ... merry men travel to ugly locales to fight wave after wave of nondescript enemies ...