Sentences with phrase «from backdraft»

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By the time the somewhat protracted climax rolls around, Backdraft has firmly confirmed its place as a mild disappointment from an otherwise consistent filmmaker.

Howard's tendency to lionize his characters (see also «Backdraft» and «A Beautiful Mind») is most deserved in this account of the astronauts who almost didn't make it home from the moon.

The movie begins as a lighthearted comedy with some great cameos from the likes of DeVito and town priest Scott Glenn (Backdraft).

You obviously expect less from a film by Mikael Salomon, the Swedish cinematographer of such Hollywood films as James Cameron's The Abyss, Steven Spielberg's Always, and Ron Howard's Backdraft, whose subsequent directing career has consisted almost entirely of lesser genre television (like A&E's 2008 «The Andromeda Strain» miniseries and Lifetime's Drew Peterson: Untouchable).

We may otherwise be giving back some of the benefits via: leaky chimney dampers; low R value masonry and metal chimneys which penetrate the building envelope (both heating and cooling penalties depending on the season); convective air currents arising from temperature differentials inside large chimneys; metal pipe air intakes which can be quite difficult to insulate, channeling cold into the envelope 24/7 during heating season; backdrafting through leaky woodstove doors; and so forth.