Diego Loyzaga is putting his inner demons and boy-next-door appeal to good use in Yam Laranas’ grisly whodunit “Death of a Girlfriend”—a fresh and provocative spin on Pinoy neo-noir that cleverly channels the twisted convolutions of Bryan Singer’s “The Usual Suspects.”
But Diego’s thespic triumph in the Vivamax thriller wouldn’t have been as convincing without the complementary debut portrayal of AJ Raval, who daringly inhabits the titular “dead girlfriend” as if reliving her character Christine’s nightmare and the cautionary circumstances that led to her death were second skin to her.
More than that, while she may be rough around the edges, there’s certainly more to AJ than …
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