Noven Belleza arrested, charged with rape of 19-year-old girl in Cebu

Noven Belleza is facing serious charges after he allegedly raped a 19-year-old girl in Cebu.

The Tawag ng Tanghalan grand champion has been arrested by the police early Sunday morning due to rape allegations, according to the report by The Freeman, a local newspaper in Cebu.

Noven made it to the frontpage for today's issue of The Frontman, though he was not yet named there and was only described as "singing champ", "first ever winner of a singing contest in a noontime TV show" and "suspect in Cebu for concert".

All clues lead to Noven Belleza, who emerged as the 1st ever grand champion of Tawag ng Tanghalan on It's Showtime just last March. He arrived in Cebu last Saturday to perform for "Pusuan Mo Si Vice Ganda sa Cebu" concert, where he was one of Vice's guest performers, at the IC3 convention center.

Just this afternoon, The Freeman has already named Noven Belleza as the rape suspect in its tweet as the police file rape case against him at the Cebu City Prosecutor.

This rape accusation against Noven Bellewa came as a shock to many, especially to those who have followed his journey on 'Tawag ng Tanghalan', where he was well-loved by the viewers.

Before winning TNT, Noven was a rice farmer in Victorias City, Negros Occidental.

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War For The Planet Of The Apes Movie Review: An Unnecessarily Long And Sluggish Two Hours With An Overdramatic Ape

WE'RE A great fan of the very first "Planet of the Apes" film based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. The big twist in its narrative remains for us to be one of the most shocking endings in the history of cinema. The apes then stand for the blacks or people of other races that whites fear will eventually be ruling America.

Now comes "War for the Planet of the Apes", the third in the series after "Rise" and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Most of the things we've read about it are very positive, praising it to high heavens especially the proficiency of the CGI in the motion-capture techniques used for the apes, especially Andy Serkis as the lead ape, Caesar, that is truly very impressive in being so photo-realistic. The monkeys are all just rendered flawlessly, with even their eyes expressing emotions.

But the movie itself is not worthy of the hype. There are several dragging stretches giving it a high "boringga" factor. Caesar, who acts like Moses leading his folks into safety, has plenty of overdramatic crying scenes, looking like he wants to be nominated for the Oscar. This sci-fi movie presents another dystopian view of the future about the decline of human civilization. Humans are affected by the simian flu that render them helpless while the apes become more and more intelligent.
It presents a very depressing vision of the future, especially when you realize that the apes, from whose point of view the movie is told, are actually the leads and the humans are the villains. We think it would be very foolish of us viewers to agree with that premise, even if you'd say that the apes are just being used here as a symbol. A symbol of what? ISIS?

But the movie has another valid message: that revenge and violence beget exactly revenge and more violence. It's a cycle from which man has never learned. Caesar here actually desires peace so he and the tribe of apes he leads are ensconced in a secret hideaway into the woods of Northen California for refuge. But the Colonel (Woody Harrelson), the head of a scalawag group of soldiers who want to kill the apes, tracks them down and kills his wife and son.

Caesar finds himself wallowing in hate and anger, emotions he wanted to set aside in his conflict with the traitor ape, Koba (Tobbey Kebbel), who sides with the villainous soldiers. It becomes his personal mission then to take revenge on the Colonel, a maniacal madman who stands in for Marlon Brando's Colonel Kurtz in Coppola's film. He captures all the apes and imprisons them in a concentration camp where they are forced to do hard labor. The monkeys are clearly the protagonists here eliciting audience sympathy while the humans are irredeemably evil, except for a mute orphan girl called Nova (Amiah Miller) who becomes an ally of the apes.

Many elements in the movie are really borrowed from a lot of other war movies, notably "The Great Escape" and even from the Roman slave flick "Spartacus", by Director Matt Reeves, who also did "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", the teen vampire flick "Let Me In" and the monster flick "Cloverfield". The opening scenes, with the soldiers donning helmets adorned with tags like "Monkey Killer" and "Bedtime for Bonzo", have allusions to the Vietnam War, as underlined in a graffiti on the wall saying "Ape-pocalypse Now".

The movie has great production values, especially the design and the overall tone and atmosphere, which is very dark. But there are just a lot of meandering sequences in between the action scenes. The slow-moving scenes just go on and on and needlessly lengthen the film's running time to more than two sluggish hours. A lot of trimming can honestly quicken the pacing of this cumbersome film. This U.S. summer is truly full of such unnecessarily long movies that simply bore, just like the latest "Transformers" and "Spiderman: Homecoming", making it a truly "boringga" summer.
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Cherry Pie Picache Gets Raves For Her Best Actress Winning Performance In 'Pauwi Na', Talks About Her Current Lovelife

CHERRY PIE PICACHE is happy over the Urian best actress nomination she got for her role in the movie, "Pauwi Na", which won her the best actress award in the To Farm Filmfest last year. Her leading man in the movie, Bembol Roco, won the best actor award and the movie itself later won the Golden Goblet Award in the Shanghai International Filmfest recently.

"Pauwi Na", which is about a family going back to their home in the province by pedicab, also stars Meryll Soriano and Jerald Napoles. It will be re-shown in local theaters from August 17 to 22 as part of the Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino, so those who want to see how Cherry Pie is so good in the film, now is the rare chance for you not to miss it.

Cherry Pie's career is really doing well as she is in no less than two new soaps on ABS-CBN. She has already finished taping "The Promise of Forever" with Paulo Avelino and Ritz Azul and she's now about to start taping the new drama series, "Visions of Love", with Lorna Tolentino, Julia Montes, JC Santos and again, Paulo Avelino.

With regard to her personal life, she's now the happy mom a teenage boy. Her love son is now 15-years old, a high school student at the Ateneo and a competent tennis player who is a member of the National Team. And yes, she gladly admits she's now in love again, with a non-showbiz guy who's younger than her. "Hindi naman sobrang bata, slight lang," she adds with a smile. "Exclusively dating kami, walang label, very millennial, di ba?"

Some folks might call her a cougar but such relationships now are not rare, as can be seen in the love affairs of Ai Ai de las Alas and her fiance Gerald Sibayan, Dr. Vicki Belo and Hayden Kho, and even Britney Spears, Madonna and Cameron Diaz who all have boyfriends younger than them. Does she see herself facing the altar with her BF some day? "Hindi na. Millennial nga, e. Pa-date-date na lang. At saka may anak na ako, mahirap."
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Mark Escueta asks for prayers as wife Jolina Magdangal hospitalized again

TV host and actress Jolina Magdangal was rushed to the hospital again this morning, husband Mark Escueta has shared on Instagram.

Escueta shared a photo of Jolina's hand while she's undergoing series of tests at the hospital. In the caption, he said that Jolina woke up 630AM today experiencing back and abdominal pain.

@mariajolina.ig: "Hi, si Mark ito. Ako na muna ang nagpost sa ig ni Jolina. Kaninang 6:30am nagising si Jolina dahil masakit daw ang lower back niya, hanggang harapan. Nandito nanaman kami sa ER. May additional tests na kailangang gawin. Please pray that it's nothing serious, at hindi rin complication nung aksidente nung Monday. Maraming salamat."

An hour later, a more worried Mark posted again this time in his own Facebook account, asking everyone again to pray.

Jolina was already hospitalized Monday last week after sustaining minor injuries from a vehicular accident.

After being discharged, she and her family pushed through with their planned Hong Kong vacation, then she immediately went back to work after their HK trip, did live episode for 'Magandang Buhay" last Thursday and taped more episodes, including that soon-to-be aired episode with Maymay Entrata and Elisse Joson as the guests. She also reported for ASAP yesterday to host the LSS segment.

Let's all pray for Jolina's fast recovery. - Mykiru.ph

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