The popular 1996 Shakespearean romance drama “Romeo + Juliet” recently turned 25, and its director, Baz Luhrmann, is sharing with TODAY how he feels about the movie a quarter century later. Luhrmann, ...

It takes a true artist to be thematically serious while humorously cynical and off-putting. Because of this, parodies are incredibly difficult to pull off. The University of Iowa’s theatre department ...

The classic story of Romeo and Juliet, set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach. The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families, whose children meet and fall in love. They have to hide their love ...

Well, lots of places, actually. Especially at the movies. One of William Shakespeare’s most revered plays, written somewhere around the 1590s, follows the romance between two Italian youths from ...

Romeo + Juliet was a breakthrough role for many of its cast members. It further solidified Leonardo DiCaprio as a megastar in the making before he even set foot on Titanic. But apart from DiCaprio, ...

Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...

No discussion of Baz Luhrmann’s films – and his maximalist, hyper-sensory style – is complete without mentioning their equally more-is-more approach to music. With the help of his longtime music ...