Blitz

During the London Blitz, Rita Hanway (Saoirse Ronan) puts her young son (Elliott Heffernan) on a train headed for the countryside, but he jumps off and tries to make his…

Occupied City

This documentary had the potential to become something great. Steve McQueen adapted his Dutch wife Bianca Stigter’s book that chronicled the war years in Amsterdam, creating a comprehensive guide to…

12 Years a Slave: Land of the Unfree

Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures The historian Sue Eakin was born in Louisiana five decades after the end of the Civil War and she specialized in…

Shame 

What is it about director Steve McQueen and his desire for punishing Michael Fassbender's body and soul? In his first film, Hunger (2008), McQueen subjected the star to starvation and…

Hunger 

Director Steve McQueen's feature film debut is an unusually uncomfortable and tangible journey inside the Maze prison and the 1981 hunger strike that killed IRA activist Bobby Sands. There have…