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 ...

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Twenty years ago Ron Howard made Backdraft, a visually stunning triumph of special effects that is remembered far more for its arresting firey set-pieces than its converging humanist plot-lines. But ...

With a script by a former fireman that invites the taunt “Don’t give up the day job”, this by-the-numbers drama of estranged brothers reconciled would be mighty poor stuff but for special effects to ...

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 ...

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 ...