Blitz triggered a lot of memories for me, having worked in the East End in the mid-1970s, covering a patch for a local newspaper that stretched from Bethnal Green across to Stepney, Poplar, Bow and ...
The Tower of London, one of London's most iconic landmarks, played a significant role during and after World War Two, ...
Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson and Steve McQueen have together ushered in the 2024 BFI London Film Festival. With the world premiere of McQueen’s latest film Blitz opening the fest Wednesday night, ...
The Apple original film is set against the backdrop of the Germans' infamous bombing campaign across the U.K. capital as a distraught Rita (Ronan) searches for her missing son. By Lily Ford The world ...
It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.” As a Londoner, the German bombing raids on the city during World War II are never all that ...
World War II is a worn-out subject, trampled with the footprints of earnest filmmakers continually interested in the most pivotal point in modern history. There’s often an audible sigh that ...
St Dunstan’s in Stepney is arguably London’s third most-famous church dedicated to that saint. Everyone knows the “secret” St ...
In London’s Jewish East End during the Bltizkrieg, The Jewish Blitzstein family’s mother owns a pickled herring stall that adjoins the cockney Locke family’s father’s fruit stall. The two are at odds.