Films in Four

A coalman in 1980s Ireland is confronted by dark and distressing secrets connected to a local convent in this slow-burn drama concerning the tragic injustices of the Magdalene Laundry system.

Sir Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” follows the epic journey of George, a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mother and his grandfather Gerald in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.