”Backdraft” was the nation`s most popular film for the second consecutive weekend, and ”Hudson Hawk” emerged as the first big-budget bust of the summer movie season. The firefighter drama ”Backdraft,” ...

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 ...

Backdraft is a harrowing, uncomfortably intense story of firefighters at work. It is at once thrilling and heart-stoppingly scary. A less ambitious director might have left it at that. But Ron Howard ...

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 ...

As depicted in a 1991 Hollywood thriller, a backdraft is a serious matter if a fire ever breaks out inside a building. Fire needs oxygen to burn and actually sucks air toward it, creating a windstorm ...

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.