'Beyond the Lights,' a Diva's Romance

Those already familiar with English actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw will most likely remember her in corsets and eighteenth-century gowns as a mixed-race aristocrat in the film Belle. But for her latest movie, Beyond the Lights, she's donning a very different

This world we live in consumes sex like candy, only to complain about the cavities. The new movie “Beyond the Lights” shows us how wrong that is.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker and director Gina Prince-Bythewood shatter genre cliches in the entertaining and moving Beyond the Lights.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker and director Gina Prince-Bythewood shatter genre cliches in the entertaining and moving Beyond the Lights.

“Beyond the Lights,” Gina Prince-Bythewood's occasionally silly, frequently stirring romantic melodrama, was originally going to be called “Blackbird,” after the Nina Simone song at its yearning heart. That song, a blunt, anguished, barely metaphorical