If you need a fantasy fix over the festive period, Netflix has just picked up Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands.

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 ...

A hero fighting a dragon would seem a natural set piece in today’s world of cinematic superheroes who fly, shout and flex while battling various monsters. Why, then, does the Virginia Arts Festival’s ...

A kingdom is assaulted by a monster and a hero sweeps in with his army to defend the realm. Not the premise of a new Netflix fantasy series. Instead, a plot synopsis of the Old English epic Beowulf.

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 ...

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 ...

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An illustration of the eponymous hero fighting the dragon, next to a manuscript of Beowulf from circa AD 1000, located in the British Library (iStock/Getty) The tale describes a battle with three ...

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 ...

It's a staple of English literature courses, an Old English epic poem so dramatic it has even spawned a computer-animated action fantasy film. Yet academics have slapped a ‘trigger warning’ on Beowulf ...