English-language films

The LifeArt Global Media Festival 2017 is an initiative inspired by the vision of the late filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis, and starts on Monday, July 10, with the screening of a spectacular National Geographic documentary on climate change. "Before the Flood" is directed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Fisher Stevens and produced by Martin Scorsese.

This weekend, Despicable Me 3 will premiere in more U.S. theaters than any other movie in history. As Variety reports, 4,529 theaters will show the film. The movie is the fourth release in the franchise that first introduced the freaky little yellow monsters known as Minions to the world in 2010.

The 7th Athens Open Air Film Festival is hosting a classic movie night on Friday, June 30. Jonathan Glazer's 2000 gangster-comedy "Sexy Beast" features electrifying performances by Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone. The screening will take place at the Alsos Petralonon basketball field, starting at 9.30 p.m., and admission is free of charge.

Star Wars fans live in perennial fear. With every new entry in the beloved saga comes the potential to recreate the objectively garbage prequels in which George Lucas painted three braindead scripts with lots of pretty computerized effects. Though fans initially questioned the pick for Episode VII director, J.J.

Oscar-winning actor Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, who starred in Gangs of New York and Last of the Mohicans, has retired.
A statement issued through the 60-year-old star’s agent said he “will no longer be working as an actor”.
It said it was a “private decision” and he was “immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences”.

As part of their ongoing legal battle with Johnny Depp, the star’s former business managers have included emails from him in their latest court filing — which reveal, in part, that he was willing to sell off some of his belongings to help his financial situation.

A Greek-American man was stabbed to death when a threesome in Park Slope, New York spiraled into a deadly attack with bats and knives after one of the participants began filming the sexcapade, police sources said.

The Athens Open-Air Film Festival presents the 1994 Australian comedy drama "The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert," about how a drag show ensemble's road trip across the Outback serves as an awakening for the artists themselves but also for dozens with whom they cross paths.

John G Avildsen, who directed hugely successful underdog fables Rocky and The Karate Kid, has died at age 81.

Avildsen’s son Anthony said his father died on Friday (local time) in Los Angeles from pancreatic cancer.

Sexy Greek actress Penelope Anastasopoulou has been embracing the joys of motherhood since becoming a parent about a year ago. Her beautiful daughter Lydia has been keeping her and her partner busy, but the talented artists took some time out for a hot photo shoot in magazine “Down Town”.