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, ...

The road between teenage romance and the rest of life is littered with the corpses of dreams. This is a useful thought for anyone who gets too misty over the ’90s version of “Romeo and Juliet,” a ...

DiCaprio went on to become one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, starring in Titanic, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, Inception, Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby, The Wolf of Wall ...

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 ...

It was 1996 that Baz Luhrmann's reimagination of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet hit cinemas. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the title roles it banked over $147 million at the box ...

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 ...

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 ...

On one side are the Montagues: Free-wheeling guys in Hawaiian shirts that flap over bare chests and piles of religious jewelry. Their opponents are the Capulets: Sleek-looking panther types, clad in ...