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

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

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 ...

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 ...

It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.” As a Londoner, ...

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

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

The narrative centers on working-class single mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) and her 9-year-old son George (Elliott Heffernan), who get separated in their besieged city. The story is told from their ...

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

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 ...

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 ...