This will no doubt be the first of many amazing roles,' says director Steve McQueen of the actor making his film debut in the ...

For his film debut in "Blitz," Elliott Heffernan had a tall order. He had to perform in perilous scenes that found his ...

Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never ...

Elliott Heffernan makes a stunning debut as the son of a factory worker played by Saoirse Ronan in director Steve McQueen’s ...

Ultimately, that there is a war on in “Blitz” may not be its defining feature. The London under siege in McQueen’s film is as ...

Saoirse Ronan and newcomer Elliott Heffernan dominate the film as a mother and son separated by war who must find their way back to each other as London is bomb ...

A title card for Steve McQueen’s harrowing and viscerally impactful historical war drama “Blitz” tells us that during the ...

In a film that has powerful moments of wonderment, humor and joy, Saoirse Ronan plays a London factory worker trying to ...

“Blitz”: Award-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen goes old school, in a way, with his breathtakingly filmed World War II ...

The man who made '12 Years a Slave' shows the trauma of a family living with the reality of German bombing. Saiorse Ronan, ...

Her character Rita, who works in a munitions factory, has just sent her 9-year-old son George (Elliott Heffernan) to the countryside for safety, away from the bombs falling on London; now she’s ...

It’s told largely from the perspective of a 9-year-old boy, George (Elliott Heffernan), whose single mother, Rita (a steely Saoirse Ronan), has made the anguished decision to send him to the ...