Attention Thomas Hardy fans! The author’s classic 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd has been adapted into a British romantic drama that hits theaters on May 1st. In Victorian England the independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; […]
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The Great Gatsby is a story wrapped with passion, violence and love. For this new film add dreamy Leonardo DiCaprio to play Gatsby, the sweet alluring Carey Mulligan as his love interest Daisy Buchanan and flashy over-the-top director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet) and you have a film sure to be an entertaining blockbuster. […]
By Christine Spines The Daisy derby has been decided. Carey Mulligan, who burst into the public consciousness last year with her Oscar nominated turn as the wide-eyed gamine in “An Education,” will play Daisy Buchanan opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in director Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Mulligan prevailed over a crowded […]
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