The TLS Goes to See "Beowulf" ...

... and likes it! Carolyne Larrington, an Old-English scholar, has seen more film adaptations of the tale than anyone knew existed. "Zemeckis’s Beowulf is in touch with critical debate about the poem," we learn. And: "Beowulf [the film] tells us quite a lot about twenty-first-century anxieties about masculinity and power, and about the ways in which we reframe stories from our national past, but it is also rip-roaring fun." Read the whole thing here.