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).

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 ...

‘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 ...

We learn that Grendel is not, as the original text posits, the son of the Biblical figure Cain, but Hrothgar himself. Furthermore, Beowulf succumbs to Grendel’s mother’s seductions and fathers ...

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 ...

With a starry cast including Jeff Bridges, Bryan Cranston and Dave Bautista, writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski is counting on old-school movie magic from The Jim Henson Co. to turn Beowulf’s ...

"The story of Beowulf fighting the monster Grendel, his warrior Mother, and the serpent dragon is well known," said Janus Theatre Artistic Director Sean Hargadon.