Beowulf thus slays Grendel, forcing the monsters mother to seek revenge. Gunnarssons film goes a step further by introducing four new characters (Grendel's father, Grendel's son, a witch named ...

Grendel’s mother (Angelina Jolie) takes revenge by attacking the hall following a night of celebration. She strings up the corpses of all of Beowulf’s men save for his trusted lieutenant ...

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.

The great hero Beowulf, wrestling with the monster Grendel, split the sinews of his foe and snapped his arm off at the shoulder. Going up against the monster's mother, he slammed her to the earth ...

Movie review: 'Beowulf' Germain Lussier. ... In doing so, he encounters three even bigger evils: Grendel's mother (the aforementioned naked Jolie), a dragon and himself.

Grendel limps back to his lair, where his mother — she has no name, so we’ll call her Grendma — watches him die. When Beowulf discovers the lair, Grendma reveals herself in the form of a ...

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Beowulf in turn succumbs to the siren’s temptations and fifty years later he is confronted by the fire-breathing dragon, which is also his son by Grendel’s mother.

The epic, canonical story of the hero Beowulf is one that has been passed on for centuries and is arguably the best preserved story that exists from early British literature. Unfortunately, novelist ...

The more I hear about the upcoming Neil Gaiman-penned Beowulf (slated for release in late November), the more reasons I have to believe that this film is going to be awesome. First of all, it's a ...

Having heard that a naked Angelina Jolie plays Grendel's beast-mom, you've guessed that the semi-animated 3-D Beowulf is not a totally faithful rendition of the 3,138-line epic poem you struggled ...

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 ...