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 ...

"[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...