Beowulf" is an amazingly visualized take on an epic poem. The movie uses realistic computer animation to make the characters on the screen almost as real as living, breathing actors. In the movie, ...

Far off the beaten track on the windswept moors of England’s north-east, a disused quarry has been transformed into the mythical world of the Shieldlands. It’s the setting for one of the most ...

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Two elements of “Beowulf & Grendel” make a mixed-up and unbalanced picture nearly worthwhile. One is Iceland. Shooting in various, epically craggy corners of a country that hasn’t been location ...

The classic epic poem “Beowulf” comes to the big screen this week featuring a handsome warrior, a gorgeous monster and state-of-the-art special effects. But life in sixth-century Scandinavia was not ...

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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, ...

IT'S REALLY ME: Despite the animated look of Beowulf, Angelina Jolie says the actors did everything that is seen on screen. Dusty old English poem Beowulf, long required reading in schools, goes ...

Only one person created the monster. That’s according to a team of researchers at Harvard, Dartmouth, and elsewhere, who determined the epic poem “Beowulf,” a staple of literature classes the world ...