On this exam, mark Y for Yes. It’s got power and depth, and two kings whose greatness is diluted by hubris, and a thrilling dragon fight, and the demon Grendel as a tortured outcast, and a naked ...

When Beowulf asks Grendel’s mother, ... The film cleverly ties Beowulf’s final monster fight to the earlier episodes with Grendel and his mother (something the original fails to do).

Then he fights Grendel’s mother, a water monster, diving into her demonic pond (where Grendel crawled to die) and running her through with a sword, which promptly melts. And then , back in ...

‘Beowulf’ is in a fight with itself. By John Horn . Nov. 15, ... Grendel’s mother, which some translators have described as a “hag” and “wretch,” is now the unfairly curvaceous Jolie ...

And so, Beowulf succeeds in slaying Grendel’s mother on her home turf, even though she is full of fury and helped by a bevy of underwater sea monsters. And here is the problem with Robert ...

ABOUT BEOWULF You don't need to speak Old English to understand why the epic poem "Beowulf" has endured for centuries. Here's a primer with everything you need to know before seeing Robert ...

The first comic based on Beowulf, called "Beowulf: Dragon Slayer," in 1975, for instance, illustrates Grendel's mother as a weak, wolf-like humanoid. She doesn't even get to battle Beowulf.

Directed by Icelandic-Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson, Beowulf & Grendel borrows its plot from the Old English epic poem of anonymous authorship, Beowulf.The iconic piece of literature has ...

Beowulf, a young, valiant and strong hero, travels from his own land of the Geats (in what is now southwestern Sweden) to fight Grendel, a man-eating monster who terrorizes Heorot, the grand hall ...