entertainment

Ken Loach, Alexander Payne and Krzysztof Zanussi will be in Athens for the 30th Panorama of European Cinema. British director Ken Loach; the winner of two Palmes d'Or awards, is due to speak about the cinema and the current state...

The Greek state broadcaster sent out an invite to national record companies in order to submit a proposal with potential candidates for the 2018 Greek Eurovision national final. The key requirement is that the song has to be entirely in...

This year's Greek Film Festival welcomed over 11,000 film fans nationwide, celebrating the latest and greatest Greek films. The festival saw an increase in attendance compared to other years, with organiser Penny Kyprianou saying it was one of the "stronger...

A young Greek teenager stole the limelight at the Greek version of The Voice; the reality television singing competition, on Wednesday evening. The judges and the audience listened in awe to the performance of 16-year-old Athanasia Papanastopoulou, from Andravida, Peloponnese. Despite...

"Greece in our hearts", the web TV show for Hellenes everywhere, entered its third season with a show hosted in the studios of Star Web TV, on Wednesday. A Syriza MP in the Prefecture of Karditsa, and a member of...

Carla Bruni; former first lady of France, launched her international world tour in Greece on Monday evening at Pallas concert hall, and Athens welcomed her with a very warm applause. "Kalispera Athina" (Good evening Athens) she said; charming the Athenian...

Vana Barba, a well-known and popular Greek actress, has revealed that her refusal to attend a private dinner with Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein cost her a Hollywood career. In an interview with Star TV, the actress said that she declined...

Almost 200 people, singers, actors, dancers and production staff descended to the Aegean island of Naxos for the shooting of an upcoming Indian blockbuster movie. The picturesque Greek island was transformed for the needs of Bollywood production Tiger Zinda Hai....

Hospital officials on the island of Crete say German-born British cinematographer Walter Lassally; who won an Academy Award for the 1964 movie Zorba the Greek, has died following complications from surgery. He was 90. Lassally lived outside the city of...

International pop sensation and sex bomb Madonna just made a Greek graffiti artist very happy. She posted one of his Athens street creations on her Instagram account. Madonna posted a photo of a graffiti by artist George Callas. Underneath her...

Carla Bruni will be in Athens on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 October, for two concerts at the Pallas Theatre to promote her album "French Touch". Bruni says she will start her tour in Athens because she is fond of...

It's no secret that the government, and the PM's inner circle in particular, are always attempting to take advantage of events for communicative purposes, but this time they went a little too far. The PM visited an air-force base squadron...

Google has decided to put an end to the vandalization of the Greek language by introducing a service that automatically converts "greeklish" into Greek. Greeklish is the Greek language written using the Latin alphabet. It was commonly used on the Internet...

From Yorgos Lanthimos’ (The Lobster) new thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer, to Australian documentary Dogs of Democracy, to uplifting road film Djam, and forbidden love story Ouzeri Tsitsanis, The Delphi Bank 24th Greek Film Festival (GFF) showcases the...

Bo Derek was the highlight of the Mini Marathon that took place in the Greek island of Spetses, on Saturday. The American actress looked just as trim in a purple swimsuit aged 60, as she did four decades ago in...