(Ray Winstone) incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother (Angelina Jolie), who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonates throughout the ages, immortalizing the name of Beowulf. A great movie telling the tale of a classic ...
Decades later, I remembered the brief sense of superiority I felt on that dodgeball pitch after seeing the movie Tootsie, where an unemployed actor (played by Dustin Hoffmann) passes himself off as a woman in order to get a job. An English colleague of mine expressed her fury about the fil...
Beowulf (2007) is based on the Old English epic of the same title. Notably, the movie is “the full-length motion picture” where actor’s movements rather than their appearance were captured (Jones 18). I watched it on DVD and I was impressed by the technique used. I was also interes...
Beowulf is the greatest of the surving works composed in Old English. An Epic poem, Beowulf was composed orally in a form of poetry in which each line is effectively split in half, with the first half linking with the second alliteratively. It is the epic story of Beowulf, the man's ...