Leonardo DiCaprio

Jennifer Lawrence attends the world premiere of "Don't Look Up" at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, in New York.

‘Don’t Look Up’ exposes the absurdity — and consequences — of climate change denial

Climate Change

“Don’t Look Up,” Adam McKay’s latest feature film, uses humor and the metaphor of an impending, Earth-obliterating comet to satirize the ideological denial of climate change.

"Ice on Fire" filming

HBO’s ‘Ice on Fire’ focuses on solutions to the grave dangers posed by climate change

Studio 360 Goes to the Oscars

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio arrives at the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California January 30, 2016.

Leonardo DiCaprio as a 13th-century Persian poet? Why not, says Hollywood.

Culture
Lady Gaga at the Globes

When they dissed the future Lady Gaga

Arts

Maybe everyone is an underdog at some point. Lady Gaga had a Facebook group named after her when she was a raven-eyed NYU freshman at 18. It told Stefani Germanotta, in myriad ways, that she would never be famous.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ tells the story of a corrupted American Dream

Arts, Culture & Media

Leonardo diCaprio grew up poor in Los Angeles, thrown in with a bunch of rich kids. It’s that upbringing as a have-not in a world of haves that helped him create the character he plays in The Wolf of Wall Street.

California’s shark fin ban outrages restaurant owners, seafood dealers

Environment

In 2011, California lawmakers passed a law banning the controversial shark fin trade. Though the law doesn’t go into effect until January, it’s already sparked discontent among chefs and seafood distributors in San Francisco’s Chinatown, where shark fin soup remains a popular delicacy.

These six films will knock your socks off in 2012

Arts, Culture & Media

From The Dark Knight to the Great Gatsby, 2012 is set to have some blockbusters on the big screen. You’ll want to mark these six flicks down as must-see movies.

Climate change activism goes Hollywood

Hollywood is taking activism beyond “An Inconvenient Truth” in hopes of creating a global, environmental movement against climate change.