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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...