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Beowulf the game, based on the Beowulf movie (which in turn is based on the epic poem), is hitting stores next week. A straight-up action title, Beowulf has you starring as the title character.
“Beowulf” does not translate well into Hollywoodese, to judge by the new sex-sword-and-dragon epic of that title starring Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie. But it does ...
“Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands” may begin with a copycat title sequence, but it quickly stands on its own feet as a swashbuckling tale of a young hero who battles giant, vicious creatures ...
NPR's new kids' fiction column — by Juanita Giles, founder of the Virginia Children's Book Festival — kicks off with an explanation of why the epic poem Beowulf is the perfect bathtime read.
Written a millennium ago, Beowulf follows a brave hero, the title character, as he slays beasts in Scandinavia, including a monster named Grendel and Grendel's mother.
Beowulf has the arms, ... combination for anyone who remembers Winstone from “Sexy Beast,” in which he most definitely was not the title character. The whole naked-Beowulf-in-battle sequence, ...
But Headley is less interested in either Beowulf or Grendel than she is in Grendel’s mother — the second monster who Beowulf fights and kills, and the “mere wife” of the title.
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Beowulf’s battle against Grendel is also interesting, though throughout the entire exchange, he is stark naked, ... Ray Winstone, who plays the title role, look like a chubby and little-known ...
Groundbreaking director Robert Zemeckis offers a vision of the Beowulf saga that has never been told before - Beowulf, starring Ray Winstone in the title role and Anthony Hopkins as the corrupt ...