Will discovers a series of clues which lead him into a showdown with forces of unimaginable power. With the Dark once again rising, the future of the world rests in Will's hands.

But that was a stand-alone tale, written in a plainer style than the four books that followed, starting with 1973’s “The Dark Is Rising ... and George (Jim Piddock). They announce they ...

"The Seeker: The Dark is Rising" (PG)-- In "The Seeker: The Dark is Rising," a 14-year old schoolboy named Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) learns he's actually the Sign-Seeker, one of a chosen few ...

Going into The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, I was a little skeptical. "The Seeker" is a 14-year old boy, Alex (played by Alexander Ludwig) whose life is turned upside down when he learns he has ...

No, The Seeker has nothing to do with the Who song, nor does it appear on the soundtrack, which is perhaps a pity, since it might have enlivened this low-rent outburst of ersatz Harry Pottering ...

A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.

Standing on its own, The Seeker: The Dark is Rising makes for an okay evening of entertainment for the older grade schooler and even the jaded “I’ve seen it all” teenager. Regretfully ...

The Seeker: The Dark is Rising seems certain to be seen as Harry Potter fodder, and why not? It waves its wannabe wand to conjure a put-upon teen who's banished to an attic, then learns he was ...

but I do know that author Susan Cooper’s five volume mid-’70s The Dark is Rising series has fans, and has won numerous prestigious Newbery Award medals. I can safely report that the movie ...

But that s no excuse for the pathetic shambles that is The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, which projects such apathy from everyone involved that you guess that even the autopilot is on autopilot.

Nothing in The Seeker is fresh or inspired, whether it's the mentoring by Obi-Wan Dumbledore or the snarling anti-Aragorn schtick of Eccleston's Rider. This film simply offers the viewer nothing ...