They and their parents will be wowed by the battle scenes, a nifty sea-monster montage and Beowulf’s climactic dogfight with a dragon.

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 ...

Witness the legendary first encounter between Beowulf and Grendel, a monster that terrorized Heorot’s great hall. This is the ...

Most of the subsequent Beowulf adapters have flinched, however, from what in the poem is the malignance of Grendel and his mother, explained there by the belief they are descendants of Cain.

With Heorot saved from the menace of Grendel, Beowulf can finally leave and get back to adventuring. Except the night before he leaves, the king's advisor is abducted as revenge! Even something as ...

Translation has shaped the lore of Grendel's Mother as a fearsome yet misunderstood figure. The big baddie in Beowulf isn't actually the monster Grendel, but Grendel's Mother. Who maybe isn't a ...

Sarah Polley is just right as a sympathetic, Grendel-friendly witch; Stellan Skarsgard is at his scene-stealing best as the imperiled king; and, as Beowulf, Gerard Butler (the Phantom of "Phantom ...

Grendel's mother is much more involved in events, Grendel whines like a schoolboy over Heorot's merry-making, and the way at which the action arrives at the major plot points significantly differs.

With a starry cast including Jeff Bridges, Bryan Cranston and Dave Bautista, writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski is counting on old-school movie magic from The Jim Henson Co. to turn Beowulf’s ...