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 ...

Backdraft is a 1991 American drama thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. In March 2018, it was announced that Universal has tapped Spanish director Gonzalo López-Gallego ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ron Howard`s stirring drama about the personal and professional struggles of big-city firefighters, ”Backdraft” blazes into the home video market Thursday (from MCA/Universal Home Video, it`s rated R, ...

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 ...

The talented and amazing Kurt Russell celebrates his birthday on March 17. A staple of the Hollywood industry for over five decades, Russell navigated being a teen idol and graduating to become one of ...