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DVD Review – Beowulf & Grendel
In 500 A.D., on the outskirts of Daneland, a murderous troll with the strength of a dozen men regularly invades the Mead Hall of King Hrothgar (Stellan Skarsgard) and slaughters his warriors by the score. To his aid comes the hero Beowulf (Gerard Butler), a legendary...
Butler did it
The Scottish actor shows off his skills in new DVD releases With his striking good looks, irresistible Scottish brogue and magnetic old-Hollywood screen presence, you would think Gerard Butler would be an international superstar of paparazzi-obsessive proportions. The...
Beowulf & Grendel Goes DownUnder
For those of you who are fans of Beowulf & Grendel or just dig Gerard Butler, we have recently been alerted that the film has now found its way into release DownUnder. Beowulf & Grendel Heads to New Zealand MoviesDownUnder is pleased to announce an agreement...
Movie does the improbable, makes Beowulf entertaining
Urgent message to all students taking Intro to English Lit or History of English Lit this semester: As tempting as it looks, do not -- repeat, do not -- skip reading that "Beowulf" assignment and figure you can just see "Beowulf and Grendel" at the Cleveland...
Epic grass-roots triumph
Albany woman spearheads effort to get film broader exposure in U.S. Albany — When it comes to the world of entertainment, Albany isn’t usually mentioned with metropolitan areas such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Seattle or San Francisco. But...
Beowulf & Grendel: Sturla Gunnarssons epic poem
Bringing the first epic poem in the English language to the screen was an ambitious endeavour, so it required a director with a deep passion for the Scandinavian mythological tale to make a picture like Beowulf & Grendel, and who better than Icelandic-born...
Nature One of the Characters
Beowulf and Grendel, that was filmed in Iceland in 2004, premiered in Háskólabíó last night. The director Sturla Gunnarsson spoke with Fréttablaðið from Vancouver where he is filming a new television series. “Beowulf and Grendel was shot in Iceland in 47 days in the...
Iceland’s most expensive movie premiered
Beowulf, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, was premiered last night. The movie, which cost around one billion Icelandic kronas was mostly filmed in Iceland using Icelandic actors. Producers are Friðrik Þór Friðriksson and Anna María Karlsdóttir, and actor Ingvar E....
A FILM fan who fell in love with Inverclyde’s scenery
A FILM fan who fell in love with Inverclyde's scenery because of a movie has paid a visit to the area. Catherine Groger, from near Seattle in America, came to Greenock and Gourock to visit the setting for the film Dear Frankie. The movie, written by Greenock...
REVIEW: “300” THE MOVIE
Last week I had the chance to see the upcoming movie "300" based on the Frank Miller graphic novel at the first advanced screening Warner Bros. held in Los Angeles. Advanced screenings are an important part of the film development process, as they allow the studio to...
FRANK MILLER’S 300 screened tonight! And…
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. There was a test screening this night of Zack Snyder's film version of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300. I told ya' the Comic-Con footage was out of this world awesome and now you'll have two guys... one a big Frank Miller fan and the other...
The Fevered Pleasuring Of 300 Continues!!
Two More Reviews From Last Night's Screening... Merrick again... ...with two more messages from last night's screening of FRANK MILLER'S 300. I've had a really good vibe about this film since some of the earliest video diaries were revealed, and I'm desperately...
My 300 Screening Report
Last night I had the unbelievable good fortune to be in the very first test audience for the movie 300. I'm just going to gush now.... This movie is f-ing AMAZING! It's far superior in look, story, and performances to Sin City. I was enraptured from the moment the...
Vistas aside,’Beowulf’ isn’tquite poetry in motion
Because he lived somewhere around the end of the first millennium A.D., the anonymous writer of the Danish heroic epic we know as ``Beowulf" probably wasn't concerned with movie rights. Too bad; in retrospect he gave away the store. Following upon Seamus Heaney's...
‘Beowulf’ puts spin on ancient epic
Beowulf & Grendel Movie Rating: (R) | Critic: B+ Holy Venerable Bede. It’s ‘‘Beowulf” time. Someone else finally has noticed that Seamus Heaney’s acclaimed 1999 translation of ‘‘Beowulf” was a bestseller. Recently, a Julie Taymor-directed opera titled ‘‘Grendel,”...
Beguiles, thanks largely to the sparse Icelandic landscape
Rating: 3.0 stars BEOWULF & GRENDEL: Syrupy and annoying. Icelandic director Sturla Gunnarsson treats the Old English epic about a foreign warrior enlisted by a broken Dane king to rid the land of a scourge with both respect and irreverence. The result is at times...
‘Beowulf’ undertakes glorious deeds on stage and in films
Odds are, unless you're a college English major, you haven't read Beowulf in years — if you read it at all. Which makes the sudden flourishing of the 1,000-year-old epic in popular entertainment all the more peculiar. An opera and three movies, including a big-budget...
Sturla Gunnarsson Speaks of Beowulf and Grendel
Recently I had a great opportunity to sit down and have a heart to heart with the director of the 2005 feature "Beowulf and Grendel" which saw a 16 week run in Canada and is now making it's way into select American theaters. The experience was fantastic overall and I...
“Beowulf & Grendel”
Who are you calling a troll? The Grendel in question in Beowulf & Grendel, a muscular, ardently naturalistic retelling of the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon saga, may be on a bloody tear, and Tomb Raider 2's Gerard Butler rattles a lot of heroic chain mail. But...
Ancient epic poem `Beowulf’ seen through a modern prism
Two elements of "Beowulf & Grendel" make a mixed-up and unbalanced picture nearly worthwhile. One is Iceland. Shooting in various, epically craggy corners of a country that hasn't been location scouted to death, the film's makers resort to not a single...