“I didn't know if he existed and then I discovered Elliott.” Courtesy APPLE TV+ McQueen knew that Heffernan, a fellow ...

The World War II drama Blitz, from director Steve McQueen, features Ronan as a single mother in London who is separated from ...

McQueen, whose father died of prostate cancer in 2006, discovered that he developed a small tumor during one of his routine ...

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

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 ...

Oscar-winning British screenwriter, producer and director Steve McQueen for “12 Years a Slave” (2013) has come up with a startling depiction of war-ravaged London during the blitzkrieg of 1940-41 as a ...

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 ...

In the film, Ronan plays Rita, mother to George, played by 11-year-old Elliott Heffernan. Rita and George live with her ...

We meet 9-year-old George, played by Elliott Heffernan, in a cocoon of relative safety. He and his mother Rita, a munitions ...

But the film beautifully uses song — it’s practically a musical — to show character, and to convey how music can take us to a ...