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This ambitious undertaking, adapting William Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers and setting the story in a glossy music-video style in 1990s Florida. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the famous lovers kept apart by rival industrialist families. Bookended by newscastsers reciting Shakespeare's prose as .. Read more

Starring	Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo
Director	Baz Luhrmann
Genres	Drama, Romance

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Australia
- 22 Dec 2008
Bad movies come in all shapes and sizes. This one is a doozy, a big, sweeping national epic that cost Rupert Murdoch’s Twentieth Century Fox an arm and a leg ($130 million) and which has been hobbled by its weak US showing. Of course it’s doing nicely down under, but the real question is: what will the rest of the world make of it? And that’s a bit of a head-scratcher. Writer-director Baz Luhrmann has enjoyed a Midas touch up to now, tapping popular acclaim with his so-called Read more
DiCaprio in hospital scare
- 24 Apr 2006
Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo And Juliet, The Aviator, Gangs Of New York) is said to be on the road to recovery after being flown to hospital following an incident while filming his latest flick. The 31-year-old Titanic actor has been in Africa for forthcoming movie The Blood Diamond but a fall caused fears he had suffered internal injuries. An emergency helicopter flew him to a nearby clinic in Nelspruit, South Africa, where he underwent an MRI scan. The results confirmed that thankfully there was... Read more
Oliviers give the nod to Hollywood
- 18 Jan 2006
Stars of the cinema are yet again high in the running for the Laurence Olivier Awards. The awards that honour the best of actors, plays and shows in London include nominations for Billy Elliot – The Musical, Ewan McGregor, and Brian Dennehy. The stage version of Billy Elliot with music from Elton John, based on the film starring Jamie Bell and Julie Walters, is up for best new musical against Victoria Wood's Acorn Antiques – The Musical. Walters (Educating Rita, Calendar Girls) is... Read more
O Romance, Romance, Wherefore Art Thou Romance?
- 14 Feb 2008
We polled over 1,000 of you to find out the most romantic movie of all time and asked Neuropsychologist Dr. David Lewis of Mind Laboratories analysed the results to determine the movie most likely to bring on that "loving" feeling. Romeo & Juliet, Baz Luhrman's1996 adaptation of the Shakespearian tragedy starring Leonardo DiCaprio, produced the biggest neurological and physiological responses amongst film fans. Nearly one in five (19 per cent) experienced increased heart rate, raised blood... Read more