“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 ...
On Sept. 7, 1940 — 80 years ago tonight — the German air force launched a massive series of attacks on London that would go on for 56 of the next 57 days and nights. The plan was to destroy the Royal ...
It follows a 9-year-old boy named George, played by the captivating newcomer Elliott Heffernan. It’s 1940, and as the nightly air raids grow worse and worse, George’s mother, Rita, played by a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Blitz", starring Saoirse Ronan as a mother in 1940s London during German bombing raids, is out in cinemas before a streaming ...
In Blitz, Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan play a mother and son separated by war in 1940 London. (Apple TV+) Ronan relished her role in the new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel. "I really ...
During the Second World War, Germany conducted a Blitzkrieg against the United Kingdom, which is more commonly referred to as “the Blitz” (German for lightning war). The Blitz lasted from September ...
From Empire of the Sun to Au Revoir les Enfants, there’s been no shortage of films that show us World War II through the eyes of a child. Youthful innocence can magnify the horrors of war, as it does ...