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

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

“I didn't know if he existed and then I discovered Elliott.” McQueen knew that Heffernan, a fellow Brit, had never acted before and that he would have to carry much of the film’s emotional arc.

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

Propelled by moments of wonderment, humor and joy, the movie stars Saoirse Ronan as a London factory worker trying to protect ...

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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 ...

In Steve McQueen’s moving World War II drama “Blitz,” Saoirse Ronan puts an entire life into a song. -- Moira Macdonald, ...

Seeing war through a child’s eyes is sobering. It helps us reconnect to a situation that’s ongoing and unfortunately very ...

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

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 ...

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 ...