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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Donald S. Rimgale was a Chicago firefighter and fire investigator who inspired the character played by Robert De Niro in “Backdraft,” the 1991 movie set and filmed in Chicago. “He was really just ...