Directed and co-written by David Von Ancken along with Abby Everett Jaques, Seraphim Falls (2006) is a revisionist Western movie. Set during the Civil War in 1868, the movie follows Gideon, who is ...

At the time that Seraphim Falls was released in 2006, it had only been four years since Pierce Brosnan’s final appearance as James Bond in 2002’s Die Another Day. As for Neeson, this film came out ...

Like so many Westerns that have come before it, Seraphim Falls deals with the toll that vengeance (and the cycle of violence it spawns) takes on the souls of those who seek it. The film, directed by ...

David Von Ancken, a director best known for his work on the television series "Code Black" and action-thriller film "Seraphim Falls," died on Monday at 56, Von Ancken's representation confirmed to ...

Time was, in a conventional Western, the on-screen action came from down-and-out gunslingers, yellow-bellied outlaws, or war–cryin’, politically incorrect -Indians. But in the post-Civil War oater ...

“Seraphim Falls,” like “Apocalypto,” values movement over dialogue-conversation, when it happens, is in negligibly flat, Zane Grey banalities; you can hear “I reckon,” “I’d be obliged,” and “’round ...

"Seraphim Falls" looks like something out of the ordinary solely by virtue of its rarity, but in 1956, it would have been a solid but unexceptional revenge Western. Aside from spasms of brutal ...

In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him, but he gets away. They pursue, led by the dour Carver, who will pay them each $1 a ...

"Seraphim Falls" looks like something out of the ordinary solely by virtue of its rarity, but in 1956, it would have been a solid but unexceptional revenge Western. Aside from spasms of brutal ...

It is hard not to feel a little surge of pity, as if for a frail creature set loose in the snow, whenever some well-meaning distributor… It is hard not to feel a little surge of pity, as if for a ...