The tagline for Disney’s upcoming “Enchanted” could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: “The real world and the animated world collide.” Not simply colliding in the slapstick tradition ...

Hold the phone! I thought this was supposed to be Robert Zemeckis' "Beowulf," not Madame Tussauds. The photo-realistic, computer-generated characters in Zemeckis' bold take on the epic Old English ...

LOS ANGELES – The tagline for Disney’s upcoming “Enchanted” could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: “The real world and the animated world collide.” Not simply colliding in the ...

There are masterpieces that you know you should read but don't really want to sit down and study. "Beowulf," an Old English text that has tormented generations of students, is one of them. Thankfully, ...

(AP) - 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" is more like "300," only with more ...

Forget about anything you have ever read or seen before that has the label “Beowulf.” This modern, animated version is by far the best of the dozens of films based on the classic poem. Using the ...

A star line-up of voices is just one highlight of this outstanding telling of the centuries old legend of the battle to save Denmark from the evil Grendel … told in brilliant animation. Zemeckis gets ...

Robert Zemeckis's treatment of Beowulf will be unrecognisable to most English graduates who toiled through it as students. The 10th century poem emerges from its Hollywood make-over as a blaring, ...