Witness the legendary first encounter between Beowulf and Grendel, a monster that terrorized Heorot’s great hall. This is the ...

Beowulf the game, based on the Beowulf movie (which in turn is based on the epic poem), is hitting stores next week. ... Beowulf: Monster Mash Grendel, dragons, and trolls, oh my!

Beowulf was a Swedish hero made famous by an eighth century English epic poem of the same name. Young Beowulf was a fearless warrior of the Geats, the people of ...

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 ...

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?

“Beowulf,” an Old English epic poem recorded in the 11th century, follows the titular hero in three battles as he defends a neighboring kingdom and himself against a series of monsters.

“Beowulf” isn’t quite at that level, and another element holding it back is the look of its monsters, which are glimpsed quite a few times in the first episode.

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 ...