NEWS

Beyond the Lights (2014)

Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
​Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver, Machine Gun Kelly, Danny Glover

You like Love & Basketball, right? (If you answered no, get out. Just get out.) Director and writer Gina Prince-Bythewood finally returned to give us Beyond the Lights, an underrated movie about an young, just-turned-superstar singer (Mbatha-Raw) who’s completely disillusioned by fame until she meets a cop (Parker) and finds love. I know, it sounds like a bit of a sleepy romance movie, but the commentary on fame and the music industry Prince-Bythewood’s able to work into the story and Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s performance life it way beyond that. And you get to see Machine Gun Kelly act, so there’s that.