Our Flick of the Week is ”Backdraft,” which is a better film about fire than firemen. The fire sequences are easily the best ever, but the storyline about quarreling Chicago firemen brothers battling ...

If you love classic action thrillers, Backdraft (1991) is your poison, and this article provides all the necessary streaming details. Directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen, the film has ...

"[We] just never knew when the fire was going to get away from us," recalls the director, who says the cast and crew bonded over working with live fire on the 1991 film and reveals Robert De Niro's ...

Old-fashioned movies like Dark Victory (1939) and Stella Dallas (1937) are known as tear-jerkers. In their day, they were also called “women’s pictures” because their weepy emotional content was ...

IF “BACKDRAFT” were rated on its special effects alone, it would deserve a 10. Unfortunately, a movie of this sort can travel so far on special effects, then it needs plot. Ah, but those special ...

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Fifteen years ago, Ron Howard was known primarily as a comedy director (and one of my favorite sitcom characters, Richie Cunningham.) His reputation was good, but a bit lightweight. In 1991 he ...

He’s no Siskel or Ebert, but Ken McCammon gives Backdraft two enthusiastic thumbs up. So do Dan Garaguso, Richard Guthrie and Donna Mussler. “It’s about time they did something like that for ...

Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Glazer dropped word of the potential new movie during a wide-ranging interview, but it’s still at an early stage. You can imagine, then, that he’s high on studios and ...

Ron Howard is heading back into the world of firefighters, but this time he’s bringing Glen Powell with him. While the Top Gun: Maverick star was once rumored to be circling a remake of Howard’s 1991 ...