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FilAms remember Ninoy Aquino’s martyrdom 40 years ago
By Loida Nicolas Lewis On August 20th, at the Benigno Aquino Triangle Park located at 184th Place and Hillside Avenue in Queens, NY, Filipino-Americans remembered Ninoy Aquino’s assassination on the tarmac of Manila International Airport 40 years ago. Antero Martinez, president of the Benigno Aquino Triangle Foundation (BATF), organized the special gathering to coincide with […]
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Denzel gives depth and humanity to vigilante role in ‘Equalizer 3’
By Wendell Gaa Denzel Washington is my favorite actor of all time. There can be no doubt that he is right up there along with Hollywood’s greatest living legends such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Tom Hanks. His latest film “The Equalizer 3” only further justifies my conviction as once again this movie […]
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FACINE founder Mauro Tumbocon receives Jefferson Award for Public Service
Bay Area-based KPIX Channel 5 has selected FACINE founder and artistic director, Mauro Feria Tumbocon, Jr., as one of this year’s recipients of the Jefferson Award for Public Service for his dedication and commitment to promote Filipino cinema in the United States. FACINE — or the Filipino Arts & Cinema International — is a community-based […]
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Film critico incognito
By Joel David This year’s just-concluded Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, the first after a full year of the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., yielded a few controversies, the latest of which is centered on the pullout of a politically themed film from the opening ceremony – allegedly because it was censored (per political sectors), […]
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Vina Morales makes Broadway debut in ‘Here Lies Love’
The producers of “Here Lies Love,” the groundbreaking musical from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim,are pleased to announce the upcoming Broadway debut of popular Filipino actress Vina Morales, who will join the show performing as Aurora Aquino for a limited guest engagement from Friday, September 22 – Sunday, October 22 at the Broadway Theatre. Morales steps into the role following Lea […]
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From one Barbie Girl to another
By Tracy Dizon It had been almost a year. Yes. I have been anticipating this movie for a long while… I knew since then that this is going to be HUGE! As an artist, I think I have this “Instinctive Spider-Sense” of trends and forecasting those hints of this phenomenon! The Zeitgeist had been leading to this Pink Revolution […]
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One award-winning film after another for composer Nathan Matthew David
The composer behind the new movie “Joy Ride” and the new Stephen Curry documentary “Underrated,” is the award-winning Nathan Matthew David. The Filipino American composer worked to create seamless scores for both projects and helped enhance the storylines to their fullest. For the heartful comedy “Joy Ride,” Nathan worked closely with Adele Lim to craft a musical […]
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Why ‘Oppenheimer’ is relevant as the world confronts threats of a nuclear war
By Wendell Gaa “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds…” the very text from a piece of Hindu scripture which ran through the mind of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the globally heralded scientist who led the Allied project which gave birth to the world’s first nuclear weapon that ended the Second World War in […]
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HLL is more than an immersive musical; it is my family’s story too
By Tricia J. Capistrano “You can only have one Filipino friend,” I responded to my Irish American bestie, Nancy, when she asked if she could invite Gigi–a Texas native and Filipino American mom who she met at her son’s high school–when we were making plans to watch the musical “Here Lies Love.” Nancy, Gretchen (Irish […]