"[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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

What with all the fires devouring so many thousands of acres of forest land, along with the cities they surround, it’s only natural that firefighters should attract our attention. So many movies and ...

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 ...

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