Premiering at the London Film Festival, Steve McQueen's sprawling drama tries to shine new light on what happened, but has "many of the clichés of a traditional period piece".

In Steve McQueen’s harrowing film, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan, London faces threats from above—and from ...

The Oscar-winning director's complicated relationship with Britain informs his latest film, which follows a mixed-race boy ...

But too often, this story of a mother and son weathering the Blitz in London falls into clichés that smother any elements setting it apart from other films portraying this era. Blitz drops us ...

Steve McQueen’s World War II drama may appear conventional on the surface, but don’t miss what it’s really doing. transcript The writer and director Steve McQueen narrates a sequence from ...

But in fellow Brit Steve McQueen’s muscular, sincere “Blitz,” his latest reckoning with the heartbeat of historical incident, life under the threat of annihilation pulsates a little more ...

You feel that in every moment of “Blitz,” his lavish drama set during the Nazi bombing of London that went on for eight months starting in September 1940. “Blitz,” befitting a film set in ...

"Blitz" will have its world premiere at the British ... including the premiere of his directorial debut "Hunger" in 2008. His features "Shame" (2011) and Oscar winner "12 Years a Slave" (2013 ...

The director also discusses writing his first original song for a film and the relief on discovering that Saoirse Ronan could 'sing like a bird' “Blitz” is set in WWII London as it came under ...

LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen kicked off the London Film Festival on Wednesday with his gripping World War Two drama "Blitz". "Where we're standing right now ...