Seeker, The - The Dark is Rising

Aroview: Choppy big screen adaptation of Susan Cooper's popular children's series, which pits a chosen young boy against Christopher Eccleston, Ian McShane, and other tyrants of evil.

Poses the usual lofty world's end heroism and fantasy tropes, though according to proponents of Cooper's books, skewers much the Arthurian context into a brasher, less fitting American-style adventure.