It took 54 years, but the Sewickley Public Library in Pennsylvania has its copy of Beowulf back. It was checked out in January 1969. And since the library is fine-free now, there was no charge. Good ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angelina Jolie identified with her character's maternal feelings in "Beowulf." Nov. 5, 2007 — -- The oldest known story in the English language comes to the silver screen this month as the epic ...

The best-reviewed new film in theaters this weekend is Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis’s visually astonishing adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem showcasing some groundbreaking new 3-D and motion-capture ...

Do we need another Beowulf? Hasn’t our culture had enough of muscular Nordic warriors flinging themselves into battle and generously dispensing loot to their fighting buddies? Judging by this ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Chances are pretty good that when you read (or pretended to read) the poem "Beowulf" in high school, you never imagined that it would one day become a ...

If you get the chance, see “Beowulf” in an IMAX theater with the 3-D glasses on. It’s not that it won’t thrill in plain ol’ 2-D ” there’s plenty of high-octane bloodletting to go around ” I just ...

Afew weeks ago, during a visit to the doctor, I laughed out loud when the online check-in portal suggested Old English as my language preference, and not only because I happened to have with me Maria ...