LOVI Poe is rumored to be leaving GMA-7 to move to ABS-CBN. The scuttlebutt says she’s being considered to play the role of the other woman in the local adaptation of “The World of the Married” and she’ll be competing with the likes of Jane de Leon, Loisa Andalio, Julia Montes, Nadine Lustre and Julia Barretto who are also being pushed by their own supporters for the pivotal role of the mistress.

But someone tells us nothing is sure yet as negotiations are still going on. Maybe their just floating the news of Lovi transferring to another network as leverage so they can get more benefits for the renewal of her new contract as a Kapuso.

Our source adds that the one thing sure about Lovi is that she will still be seen on GMA-7 until the end of May in her current hit romantic-comedy series, “Owe My Love”, where she plays the role of the aptly named Sensen Guipit as she is always in dire financial straits or laging nagigipit pagdating sa pera.

As it is, Lovi should be proud that GMA has cooked up a lovable show for her that is not only rating very well but also gets to prove that she’s not only good in heavy drama but also has a fine talent for comedy. This week becomes more exciting in “Owe My Love” as more intriguing secrets will be revealed concerning its various characters.

The grandfather of Ben Alves as Doc Migs, Lolo Badong (played by Leo Martinez), has a worsening case of Alzheimer’s disease and has not forgotten about Lovi as Ben’s wife. He now mistakes Winwyn Marquez as Doc Migs’ new wifey.

Lovi as Sensen, in turn, finds a new boyfriend in Rocco Nacino as Doc Kenneth, who proves to be so likeable that he quickly wins the sympathy and approval of Lovi’s whole Guipit family. But Doc Migs warns her to be very careful as she doesn’t know yet the true colors of Doc Kenneth who seems to be hiding a different dark personality.

The other characters are all busy with their own respective agendas. Jackielou as Divina partners with Gene Padilla as Gastor to destroy the Guipit family for good. While Jenny Rose (Jelai Andres) and Eddie (Jon Gutierrez)’s relationship remains on the rocks, Gwaps (Buboy Villar) and Evs (Kiray Celis) take theirs to the next level leading to an unintended surprise.

In real life, Lovi visited her boyfriend Montgomery Blencowe in the U.S. but she was just launched via zoompresscon by her latest endorsement, Imono Jewelry and Accessories, made of surgical steel, non tarnish and hypoallergenic.

“I just love Imono as it advocates the growing importance of jewelry in accentuating one’s image,” says Lovi who has curated her own SS2021 collection. “It has a wide array of unique collections for men, women, couples and even children. You can even have it personalized and is suitable for all skin types and compliment the personalities and lifestyles of all clients of various ages. What’s more they’re durable, elegant and classy but reasonably priced.”

Check out the Imono collection of different kinds of jewelry and accessories, including religious and inspirational bangles, pendants and eternity rings, at their website on imonoph.com or you can contact them via sms or viber at 63917-858-5815.

Review of Amazon Prime thriller ‘The Lie’ about a family in crisis after their daughter kills someone

‘THE Lie’ is a drama-thriller based on a German movie, “We Monsters”, about a dysfunctional family undone by a lot of stupid decisions that its members make. We became interested in it because the mother, Rebecca, is played by Mireille Enos, whose very cool kind of acting in the TV series “The Killing” and “Hanna” we really enjoyed so much.

The film starts with her taking her daughter Kayla (Joey King of the TV series “The Act” about Munchausen by proxy syndrome) to her former husband, Jay (Peter Skarsgaard), who will then take Kayla to a retreat she is attending over the next few days. On their way to the retreat house, while driving through snow-covered roads, Kayla sees her friend Brittany (Devery Jacobs) on a bus stop and asks her dad to stop their car and to give Britanny a ride.

Jay complies and later, along the deserted road, Brittany asks Jay to pull over, as she needs to go pee somewhere in the frozen woods. Kayla goes with her and when they have not returned after sometime, Jay looks for them, hears Kayla screaming and sees her alone on a bridge. Britney is nowhere to be seen and Kayla says they were just horsing around when she pushed Britney down into the icy river because she’s being a bitch.

Jay goes down the river and looks for Britney but doesn’t find her anymore, presuming she must have been taken away by the swift current. They are both terribly shaken and they proceed to Rebecca’s office not knowing what to do. The panicking Jay and Rebecca decide not to go to the police but to protect their daughter at all cost.

The next day, Britney’s dad, Sam (Cas Anvar), comes looking for her. This starts a series of lies, specially when Sam later becomes very suspicious. To cover up, Jay and Rebecca even try to transfer the blame to Sam and make him the prime suspect for allegedly beating up and abusing his own child. As one can easily deduce, from hereon, things get from bad to worse.

The film is directed by Veena Sud (producer of “The Killing), who obviously wants to make viewers to regard it as a question of morality: in a nightmarish scenario, how far would you go to protect your own child even if you know that she is wrong? The problem is that our sympathy for the couple slowly gets eroded because of their own selfishness and the contrivances in the storytelling that become quite difficult to believe.

This could have been a good character study about a family in crisis who may be black or white or gray. But after a while, we find ourselves losing our interest in their supposedly nerve-wracking plight and, as they go on committing more foolish mistakes, we find ourselves saying: “Buti nga sa inyo!”

Enos, as usual, is always a pleasure to watch on screen. She’s very convincing as the beleaguered but protective mom who wants to shield her erring daughter, but there’s just no spark at all between her and Sarsgaard as the shocked couple who cannot fathom the deep crisis their only daughter has gotten them into.

Joey King also plays an angst-filled character who, in the end, turns out to be not only hard to sympathize with as you get to believe in her less and less, until she comes out as a totally repulsive young woman. The unimaginable twist in the ending is not a rewarding pay off for viewers. It undercuts everything acceptable that goes before it and becomes more of a comeuppance to us viewers for sitting through the whole film.

After all the moral dilemma the characters faced, you feel that the missing piece of the whole puzzle doesn’t really fill in the space intended for it. As you think of Kayla’s past actions and realize how things came together because of her, her missteps are simply too egregious to be overlooked.