In the film, Joaquin stars as Jack Morrison, a fireman who begins to reassess the physical toll and low pay his high-risk job requires due to his wife and kids. Despite the encouragement of his mentor ...

I hung out with a firefighter friend of mine the other night and it got me thinking about how there hasn't really been a cool fire movie since Backdraft. That may be about to change... Touchstone ...

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 ...

Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley and other city officials today announced a schedule of special events leading up to, and including, an advanced screening of the movie Ladder 49, filmed locally. The ...

TUCKED INTO the helmet actor Tim Guinee wore on the set of the firefighting movie “Ladder 49” was a picture of a legendary Fire Department captain who was among the 343 FDNY -heroes killed on 9/11.

After seeing a trailer for the firefighter film, “Ladder 49,” my friend dubbed the movie “hero-porn.” I laughed, went to see it for myself and walked out with one conclusion: My friend is brilliant.

In front of and behind the camera, Baltimore provided enthusiastic manpower. The most realistic parts of “Ladder 49,” the new film shot in Baltimore and starring John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix, are ...

It's loud. It's noisy. It's downright cacophonous. That being the case, I'm led to wonder if turning up the volume is a director's ploy to draw an audience's attention away from corny melodrama. Is ...