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Over a thousand years ago, a writer (or writers) penned an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who must defeat an evil monster (the story is replete with power struggles, lots of killing and, yes, ...
LITTLE ROCK — "Iam ripper! ... tearer! ... slasher! ..." is how the hero Beowulf says hello in the current movie version of the ancient poem. "Beowulf," the poem ...
Robert Zemeckis’ new film “Beowulf” gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “the sublime and the ridiculous.” Zemeckis took the oldest and most important text of our ur-language, and turned it into a ...
What have they done to Beowulf, everyone’s least favorite Old English epic about a hero’s battles with a monster, the monster’s mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later? Director ...
Dusty Old English poem Beowulf, long required reading in schools, went Hollywood on Friday in a bit of high-tech animated movie trickery that its makers are loath to call "animation." The story, about ...
If you’ve been grumbling lately that Hollywood doesn’t make enough semi-animated Middle Ages epics featuring monsters who drool in 3-D, “Beowulf” just might be the movie for you. Grendel, a horrific ...
The oldest work of English literature gets a complete 21st Century makeover in Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf” movie, opening Friday. But screenwriters Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman, like most American high ...
Angelina Jolie’s lips look even fuller than usual. She’s emerging naked from a pool of dank cave water, rivulets of gold streaming gently down her body. “Giiiif meee sonnnn,” she coos, in an Old ...
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TORONTO -- "Beowulf," Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of the ninth century English epic poem, will screen in Imax theaters as a digitally remastered 3-D movie beginning Nov. 16. By Etan Vlessing, The ...