Actors can spend months preparing for a role, but in the comedy “Easter Sunday,” opening today at theaters nationwide, Filipino American ... It was like angels were holding my hand and guiding ...

has been mining his extended Filipino family, particularly his needling, guilt-inducing, loving mother, on tour and cable comedy specials for years. “Easter Sunday” expands those routines into ...

The actress has a long list of credits that include “The King and I” on Broadway and “The Sopranos” on television but considers “Easter Sunday ... there were no Filipino comics ...

So far, so familiar. What’s different about ” Easter Sunday,” a joyful if overly broad family dramedy starring comedian Jo Koy, is that this extended clan is a Filipino American family and ...

whose DreamWorks Pictures co-produced the film. Billed as a “love letter to the Filipino-American community,” “Easter Sunday” certainly earns its bona fides for elevating a historically ...

Lin, Koy and Spielberg dropped a house on Cheng’s life and the result was Easter Sunday, the first major studio film led by an all-Filipino ensemble. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and loosely ...