Alden Richards' ex-loveteam partner Louise delos Reyes now with ABS-CBN, joins 'Ang Probinsyano' cast

Louise delos Reyes is now in the Kapamilya Network, ABS-CBN, after many years with GMA 7, where she was even part of a love team with Alden Richards.

The 24-year-old ex-girlfriend of Enzo Pineda, who also moved from GMA to ABS-CBN last year, will be making her Kapamilya teleserye debut via FPJ's Ang Probinsyano, playing the role of PO3 Katrina Velasco.

In fact, Louise was already shown in the teaser for tonight's episode of 'Ang Probinsyano', where she will be sharing many scenes with "Cardo", the lead actor Coco Martin.

Aside from Louise, other characters to be introduced tonight are those of Ejay Falcon, Sandino Martin, Dominic Roque and Ron Morales.

While with GMA, Louise was paired with Alden for at least 3 soaps ('Alakdana', 'One True Love' and 'Mundo Mo'y Akin) before the latter found success in a loveteam with Maine Mendoza. - Mykiru.ph

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Ang Pagsanib Kay Leah De La Cruz Movie Review: Sorry, But We Didn't Get Scared At All!

WE REALLY enjoyed Katski Flores' directorial debut, "Still Life", which she herself wrote for the Cinemalaya in 2007. Glaiza de Castro was so good in the lead role of a young woman who does some time travel and meets the man, Ron Capinding, who'd eventually be her son. We felt that Glaiza should have won the best actress award for her performance in that film.

It took ten years before Katski got to direct her second film. In between, she did teleseryes for ABS-CBN like "Mana Po" and "Lumayo Ka Man Sa Akin". Her last soap was "A Beautiful Affair", which didn't go the way the ABS-CBN bosses envisioned it, so she was replaced and was never made to helm a teleserye again. We don't know why she chose a horror film like "Pagsanib" as her comeback vehicle as it's hard to make a fright flick that really works. The story is written by Erik Matti (of "Seklusyon) and the script is by Charlene Esguerra.

The story centers on a policewoman who looks more like a supermodel, Ruth Liwanag (Sarah Lahbati). She moves to this small town called Dalisay trying to run away from the traumatic memory of something in her recent past that will only be revealed in the ending. She has just arrived in town when she sees a young woman, the eponymous Leah (Shy Carlos), jumping off the balcony of their house.


Despite the fall, Leah miraculously survives and she's blamed for a violent attack on her longtime yaya, Rosario. Leah and Rosario both end up in the same hospital. But why did Leah try to kill Rosario? Is she possessed by an evil spirit?

Ruth gets involved and tries to uncover the mystery, which gets too complicated for its good and eventually gdets to involve the parish priest Father Lucas (Jim Paredes), a nun who is Leah's guidance counselor with a deep dark secret (Angelina Canapi) and a nefarious cult in the late 80s where the perverse male leaders make their young female members their sex slaves.

That "Pagsanib" also comes from the fertile imagination of Erik Matti is easy to deduce since it has the same theme of his "Seklusyon", with the devil playing on men's weaknesses for them to do heinous, diabolical deeds that will make anyone cringe.

The main trouble with the movie is you don't really get to relate or sympathize with any of the characters, some of whom we don't really get to care for like Leah's mother, Marite (Olive Nieto), who turns out to be a randy unfaithful wife cheating on her unsuspecting husband, Oscar (Michael Rivero, unrecognizable as he gained so much weight), and is even shown giving head to a security guard (Micah Munoz) who's turned off by her aggressiveness. Then there's Leah's boyfriend, Gabriel (Julian Trono), who also doesn't get our sympathy as he behaves like an irritating retardate who's always sleeping or needlessly hugging Ruth. The script also raises a lot of questions that are left unanswered. Example: how can a woman raised in a cult suddenly become a nun and a guidance counselor, which needs a lot of training and preparation, in so short a time? And that climax in the forest at the dead of night is staged in a very messy manner.

Sarah Lahbati does pretty well in the lead role, consistently stoic and courageous all throughout but haunted by her own demons that make her cut her own thighs and belly with a knife. You'd believe that even the evil spirit who lurks around will be afraid of her because she's so fearless. In the dark library sequence where the spook appears and she pursues it, it's even the ghost who seem to get scared and tries to run away from her because of her fierce no-nonsense aura.

And she's so beautiful on screen. We've rooted for her even when she was just a neophyte in Starstruck. Maybe she would have been a bigger star now had she not rebelled and left GMA as they were on the verge of building her up then to full stardom. But we believe she can still catch up because she's really stunning on screen and can really act.

Nothing much is required from Shy Carlos at the start, but when she finally manifests the signs that she's indeed possessed, she gets convincingly transformed into an evil entity worthy of being the film's title-roler.

Katski works really hard in creating a creepy and ominous atmosphere of doom throughout the movie. Most scenes are shot in the dark, but sometimes, her techniques get repetitive, like the frequent flickering of the lights and the pervasive whispering voices we hear that utter gibberish for added fright factor. But the thing is, we don't get really scared at all.

As someone behind said as we were going out of the theatre: "Hindi naman ako natakot." Maybe she should have put some jump scare scenes, no matter how cheap they are, as local viewers who go for the horror genre just loved being jolted out of their seats.
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Sofia Andres & Diego Loyzaga Star In Their First Movie Together, 'Bloody Crayons', A Suspense-Thriller About A Serial Killer Stalking A Group Of Students In An Island

AFTER STARRING in their first soap together, "Pusong Ligaw", rumored sweethearts Sofia Andres and Diego Loyzaga are now paired again in their first movie as a love team, "Bloody Crayons", where they share top billing with another young tandem, Janella Salvador and Elmo Magalona. How do they feel about it?

"We're very happy to be working together and with the other young co-stars we have in the movie," says Diego. "But I just want to make it clear that the story of 'Bloody Crayons' is not focus on the love teams. Meron din, pero very slight lang. This is kasi more of a suspense-thriller about a group of graduating students who go to an island to make a short film and become the victims of a sadistic and mysterious killer who stalks them one by one. Hindi ito tungkol sa mga multo-multo or anything supernatural but something more realistic na magpapakaba talaga sa viewers."

"Ang maganda sa movie, nakabuo kami ng bagong family of friends while we were shooting it in various locations like Bataan, Tanay and Batangas," says Sofia. "Masaya ang naging bonding namin ng buong cast, along with Jane Oineza, Maris Racal, Ronnie Alonte, Yves Flores and comedian Empoy. Naging barkada kami talaga kaya masaya talaga ang lahat sa set while we're shooting out of town. And it's also fun working with Direk Topel Lee kasi parang kabarkada rin lang namin siya sa set. He's not the type na naninigaw kaya walang tension sa shooting and he's also very good at what he does."

So how will she and Diego describe their relationship now, off cam? "We're okay," they both say.
And what does 'we're okay' exactly mean? "Ibig sabihin, we're really happy working together, sa TV man or dito sa movie. We're good, especially when we're together," says Diego.

"Whatever we have now," adds Sofia, "it's something good because we are able to really work well and have good rapport with each other. Basta panoorin nyo po ang first movie namin together na 'Bloody Crayons' if you want to have a good scare. Tiyak na mapapasigaw kayo. It opens in theaters on July 12 po."
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