"You boys think you rule everything..." 1091 Pictures has revealed the trailer for an indie comedy titled The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival last year. Actor "Dante Basco is making his directorial debut with The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, and he's not at it alone. With his family in real-life playing his family onscreen, the definition of 'family affair' is taken to the next level with the beautiful chaos that plays out throughout the film." From Nor-Cal to The Philippines, four brothers confront their issues with love, family, and culture, surrounding a highly controversial Filipino wedding. Told in four vignettes featuring cockfights, adultery, romance, food, & family. It stars Dante Basco with Darion Basco, Dionysio Basco, Arianna Basco, Solenn Heussaff, Liza Lapira, Tirso Cruz III, Joey Guilla, Aida Basco, Darius Basco, Aurora Basco, Cheryl Tsai, and Crystal Kwon. This looks charming and funny. Official trailer (+ posters) for...
- 1/20/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The title for “The Fabulous Filipino Brothers” makes it sound like a movie about a now-obscure troupe of singing-dancing siblings who once opened for Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas, and were audience favorites back in the day on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” As it turns out, however, this engagingly freeform comedy has an entirely different sort of showbiz pedigree, being the joint effort of four real-life Filipino-American brothers — Dante, Derek, Dionysio and Darion Basco — with scads of film and TV acting, writing and producing credits on their respective IMDb pages. And while one can only wonder just how autobiographical this enterprise may be for any of them, there can be no doubt that their family ties are a major reason why the interactions of the characters they portray resound with a solid ring of truth that greatly enhances all the funny business.
Working from a loosely knit episodic script he wrote with brother Darion,...
Working from a loosely knit episodic script he wrote with brother Darion,...
- 3/19/2021
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
KidsPickFlicks is a movie site for kids ages 7-17 but, you know, since we're the Only movie site for kids, we can't really leave the little ones out! So we asked adorable Kingsley P. to review Barbie™: The Pearl Princess, the first Barbie movie to play in theaters! See her review below (spoiler: she loved it!) (disclaimer: Kingsley ia a huge Barbie fan, but then, aren't we all?)
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Kingsley's mom, actress Cheryl Tsai, helped her to make this review. See Barbie™: The Pearl Princess with your little sister or cousin and then help them write a review here at KidsPickFlicks....you're never too young to have an opinion!
- 2/13/2014
- by tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
- kidspickflicks
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