IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

I BELIEVE THAT WE parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. I try to help my son, Rob, with his schooling, but over the years ...

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. I try to help my son, Rob, with his schooling, but over the years ...

Harry Potter, it turns out, is not invincible after all, although it did take a 1,300-year-old Scandinavian legend tag-teaming with a Nobel Prize-winning poet to deal the fictional wizard his ...

When I meet Nineb Lamassu at England's Cambridge University, where he's a researcher, he transports us to his Middle Eastern homeland by opening his computer and playing me a recording of a man ...

As the major studios start to position high-profile films for the holiday season, two diverse films — Robert Zemeckis' pop-culture adaptation of the Old English epic poem "Beowulf," and Ridley Scott's ...

Using a technique that digitally enhances his actors on-screen, director Robert Zemeckis takes the famous English epic poem and makes it an action-adventure film. Ray Winstone (slimmed down by ...