Greg Gorbett spends unmeasured hours building scale-model rooms, complete with furniture and fixtures. He then judiciously stacks wood cribbing inside and burns his creations. More often than not, he ...

Backdraft” has spectacle, it has stars, it has love, death, pain and lots of fire. But what it needed most was a final draft. The movie, covering a heroic bunch of firefighters in Chicago, seems like ...