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 ...

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 ...

"[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 ...

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 ...

Tom Reimann is a writer and comedian and somehow Senior Editor of Features at Collider. He has written for Cracked.com, Mad Magazine, BunnyEars.com, and Some More News, and is the co-founder of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actor Billy Baldwin made an appearance at Tuesday evening’s Whittier Fire briefing to thank the thousands of firefighting personnel for all their hard work since the wildfire took hold on July 8.