The tagline for Disney’s upcoming “Enchanted” could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: “The real world and the animated world collide.” Not simply colliding in the slapstick tradition ...
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 ...
Okay, sit still. I have a lot of things to say about Maria Dahvana Headley's new book, Beowulf, and I'm gonna try to say them all right now. It is Beowulf, mostly. Beowulf, kinda. It is Beowulf down ...
The giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, “I am Beowulf, and I’m here to kill your monster.” That’s how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero.
It might be based on an ancient saga, but Robert Zemeckis' "Beowulf" is ushering in a very modern era of filmmaking. By Debra Kaufman, The Associated Press It might be based on an ancient saga, but ...
It may be the summer’s ideal alternative to all those eardrum-exploding movie blockbusters, or your continuing struggle to hold Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon upright when your hands are freshly ...
Skullgirls Encore has had a rich roster of femme fatales do battle for several years. But now, Lab Zero's fighter is about to get a major shakeup in the form of a rare (but not the first) male ...
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 ...
It was tipped to be the new Game Of Thrones. Yet ITV's new fantasy epic Beowulf: Return To The Shieldlands failed to meet its expectations as viewers stormed to Twitter to slam the 'disappointing' new ...
Leslie J. Miller is having lots of fun these days. It’s the kind of fun one has when directing a quirky play with two talented actresses. “I really like getting into rehearsal and watching them work,” ...