Beowulf

The Most Badly Bungled Classic Book-To-Film Adaptations

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.20.2011

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The wacky, flatulent 3-D family comedy version of Gulliver’s Travels hits DVD today, and no doubt all of you Jonathan Swift fans have already picked...

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Getting Slizzard: HuffPost Readers Pick Best Drinking Scenes In Literature (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

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In "Macbeth," Macduff famously asks, "What three things does drink especially provoke?" To which the porter replies, "Marry, sir, nose-painting, slee...

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On the Culture Front: Beowulf at Joe's Pub, The Housemaid, and the New York International Fringe Festival

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage is the kind of piece that's ripe for a cult following, so it'd be great to see it land a residency somewhere in the city.

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Mother's Day: 12 Of The Most Horrifying Mothers In Literature (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Mother's Day, nothing will make you want to celebrate your mom more than these horrifying mothers of literature. While we might have pouted over th...

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Outlander: Somehow, Unfortunately, Low-Budget Beowulf + Aliens Isn't Awesome

Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011

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I criticized the Korean monster flick The Host as a movie that understood its genre but didn't add much of its own. The same can be said of Howard Mc...

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The Lords of The Fly

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Puccini, Carmen, John Gardner, Woody Allen, Ruxandra Donose, Theatre Du Chatelet, John Goldenthal, Across the Universe, The Fly, Nicholas & Alexandra, Howard Shore, Vincent Price, Beowulf, Deborah Drattell, William Friedkin, The Fly II, Jeff Goldblum, Madame Butterfly, Dante Ferretti, Batman Forever, George Langelaan, The Lion King, Ann Bogart, The Magic Flute, Return of the Fly, Lost in Space, Michael Collins, Opera, The Phantom of the Opera, Verdi, Playboy, Placido Domingo, David Cronenberg, Mozart, David Henry Hwang, La Boehme, Il Trittico, Beethoven, Julie Tamor, Daniel Okulitch, Heat, Geena Davis, Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, The Lord of the Rings, Grendel, Berlioz, Los Angeles Opera, Frida, Aida, Rasputin, Entertainment News

The production contained some pre-requisites for the medium -- a tragic storyline that centered around love, sex and three principles, making it a theoretical candidate for an operatic treatment.

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Beowulf Review: The New York Times Can't Resist Angelina Jolie Naked

New York Times | MANOHLA DARGIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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You don't need to wait for Angelina Jolie to rise from the vaporous depths naked and dripping liquid gold to know that this "Beowulf" isn't your high ...

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Hillary Clinton's Last Hurrah

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Penn. David Axelrod, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Beowulf, Harold Ickes, David Axelrod, Clinton Dynasty, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, The Political Titanic, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Politics News

The final syllables Clinton's campaign echo in the winds of history in the form of a curious series of statements that combine to form the "last hurrah" of her now-passé political era.

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"Beowulf" Slays The Weekend Box Office

AP | Gary Gentile | Posted 05.25.2011

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The animated telling of "Beowulf," who rids a Danish kingdom of the feared beast Grendel, slew the box office over the weekend, giving a huge boost to...

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Beowulf In A Fight With Itself

LA Times | John Horn | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's as close as moviegoers will ever get to being Brad Pitt: the chance to hang out with Angelina Jolie (or a digitally manipulated version of the ac...

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Beowulf Review: "A Singular Work Of Art"

IGN | Todd Gilchrist | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Zemeckis' new film Beowulf offers a powerful reminder of how far we've come, and perhaps have yet to go, in the ever-expanding world of special...

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Beowulf Technology Review: "It Is Leaving Something Out"

New York Times | David F. Gallagher | Posted 05.25.2011

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When John Markoff wrote about the Contour digital special-effects system last year, he noted that it would be judged by its ability to help animators ...

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"Beowulf" Is "Postmodern Fun" In 3-D Performance Capture

Hollywood Reporter via Reuters | Kirk Honeycutt | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 annoyi...

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Beowulf Review Round-Up: Jaw-Dropping Technology And Naked Angelina Almost Make It A Winner

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The new version of "Beowulf", Robert Zemeckis' $150 million performance-capture extravaganza is the most anticipated movie of the weekend, and for tec...

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Beowulf Review: AP Says "Beowulf Could Be Paris Hilton"

AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 05.25.2011

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The name "Beowulf" alone surely will inspire painful memories of high-school English class and pangs of dread. Never fear. This 3-D animated "Beowulf...

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Beowulf Review: "A Lot More Fun" Than The Poem

USA Today | Claudia Puig | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beowulf couldn't be less faithful to the original epic poem, and that's actually a good thing for moviegoers. It's a lot more fun than the mythic adv...

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Beowulf Review: "Holy ****ing Moly"

Cinematical | Scott Weinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Part I: The Presentation Holy ****ing moly. I've simply never seen anything like it. IMAX 3-D and a movie that was tailor-made for this kind of prese...

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Beowulf Review: "Some Of The Dialogue Sounds Like Monty Python"

Chicago Sun Times | Roger Ebert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Variety reports that Paramount has entered "Beowulf" in the Academy Awards' best animated film category, which means nothing is really there, realisti...

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Beowulf Review: "Highly Entertaining - But Far From Classic"

NY Post | Lou Lumenick | Posted 05.25.2011

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In this lusty Hollywood version, Beowulf rises to the throne of Denmark after striking a Faustian bargain with Grendel's mom, only to pay an awful pri...

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Beowulf Review: Variety Calls Epic "Sometimes Stirring But Ultimately Soulless"

Variety | Justin Chang | Posted 05.25.2011

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Further advancing the much-vaunted performance-capture technology he unleashed with "The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis delivers a muscular,...

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Angelina Nude? Almost. CGI Jolie Bares All In "Beowulf" Trailer

I Don't Like You In That Way | Posted 05.25.2011

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The R-rated trailer for Beowulf is showing up all over the place....

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