You have to marvel at the crass exploitation inherent in a movie that exists to show a bunch of firefighters in one life-threatening situation after another. It doesn’t help that, in terms of tone and ...

Robert Patrick, part of the ensemble in the new film Ladder 49, has a face that everyone recognizes from a myriad of film and television roles but a name that few can conjure up. For many, he's still ...

While Sept. 11 helped embellish the already heroic image of firefighters, "Ladder 49" doesn't owe any direct debt to such recent events. It plays, rather, like an old-fashioned, by-the-numbers drama ...