Film-geek/lit-geek awesomeness: Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens writes her review of Beowulf in Old-English-style alliterative verse. (Albeit sans caesurae, mostly.)

Lo! Let this humble scribe unlock her word-hoard
To tell of great Zemeckis, he of Gump
And Contact, Back to th’ Future, Cast Away.
He, stone-romancer, framer of Roger Rabbit,
Hollywood myth-molder, box-office bard.

In the antepenultimate stanza she refers to Beowulf as “The ’Wulf”. Great minds!

Also: I like that she quotes Ogden Nash while discussing Daniel Craig naked:

… Daniel Craig’s body is truly something to behold. He’s ripped without being the least bit muscle-bound and possessed of a coiled, catlike grace that’s atypical for an action star. Like Uma Thurman, he’s somehow athletic and delicate at the same time. Craig’s naked body, which is partly, if not fully, on view in virtually every movie he’s made, puts me in mind of a great couplet from Ogden Nash: “Should you behold a panther crouch/ Prepare to say ouch.”