Blitz is what you get when you combine Oscar–winning writer/director Steve McQueen ( Shame, 12 Years A Slave ), the works of Charles Dickens, and the third act of Atonement. And while each of these parts may sound promising by themselves, the final combination proves frustratingly uneven.

There’s no such thing as a typical Steve McQueen movie. Ever since he started making features with his 2008 Irish hunger-strike drama Hunger, the artist and filmmaker’s work for the screen has demonstrated an intriguing restlessness,

In Blitz, set during the German bombing of London during World War II, director Steve McQueen does his version of a Sam Mendes war epic.

Christiane Amanpour speaks to the Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen about his new movie ‘Blitz’. Set in London during World War II, the film tells the story of nine-year-old George and his mother,