'Beyond the Lights,' a Diva's Romance

Given how much we've covered it over the weeks, I'm sure you're all fully aware that Gina Prince Bythewood's latest effort, "Beyond the Lights," which stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Nate Parker, opened this weekend. We interviewed the filmmaker here; 

Nate Parker and Gugu Mbatha-Raw co-star in the romantic/drama Beyond the Lights. Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Belle), a singer, has been driven to superstardom by her overbearing stage mother Macy Jean (Minnie Driver), 

"Beyond the Lights" is a movie about not listening to other people's expectations but embracing what you really are, deep down. I wish the movie took its own advice. It's being sold as a rather sensitive, definitely serious film about two

“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 

"Beyond the Lights" is a movie about not listening to other people's expectations but embracing what you really are, deep down. I wish the movie took its own advice. It's being sold as a rather sensitive, definitely serious film about two