When “Heaven is For Real” released in 2014, it seemingly brought to the forefront a movie audience that often gets overlooked- the religious crowd. With a box office tally of well over 100 million dollars, “Heaven is For Real” proved that this demographic was indeed hungry for more content [Read more]
Although she may be most well known for portraying Beca in the Pitch Perfect movies, Anna Kendrick’s claim to fame came with a supporting role in the 2010 George Clooney drama “Up in the Air”. That role earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Since then, Kendrick [Read more]
It sure is hard to believe that we are more than halfway through 2016. It seems like just yesterday that we celebrated the New Year. As the time continues to fly by, we take a quick sneak peek at what our customers can expect to find on our shelves in July. The most anticipated new [Read more]
Way back in 2002, movie audiences were introduced to the Portokalos family- an eclectic group of Greeks living and working in Chicago. One member of the family, a young lady named Toula, fell head over heels for a non-Greek man- a fact that her family had a hard time accepting. Toula was played by [Read more]
Gerard Butler’s acting career began back in 1997 but it wasn’t until 2006, in his role as King Leonidas in 300, that he became a household name. The familiar quote “This is Sparta” (shouted by Butler’s character in 300) has seemingly been repeated time and after time in a number of [Read more]
Over the years, animated movies have generally proven to be major box office draws as parents were eager to take the kids out of the house for a couple hours. More recently, studios have made a seemingly conscious effort to include in these movies some humor that Mom and Dad can also enjoy. As a [Read more]
June is literally right around the corner and with it comes the promise of nicer weather- and some great new movies! Between the NHL Stanley Cup Finals and the camping trips, be sure to leave yourself enough time to check out top new movies like; Zootopia, 13 Hours, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Whiskey [Read more]
Rebel Wilson became a household name in 2012 when she starred as “Fat Amy” in the musical comedy “Pitch Perfect”. Since that time, the 36 year old Australian has had a number of scene stealing roles in various movies- including a reprising of her Fat Amy character in Pitch Perfect 2. This [Read more]
Few actors have the enjoyed the career longevity and success as Robert De Niro. With 109 credits to his name spanning from 1965 to 2016, De Niro has proven to be a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. In 1974, he won his first Academy Award for his supporting role in “The Godfather Part [Read more]
Back in February, a superhero took the world by storm. It wasn’t Batman or Superman. It wasn’t Spider-Man either. This wasn’t your prototypical superhero- it was the foul-mouthed, burned-faced Deadpool. With Canadian Ryan Reynolds in the starring role, Deadpool smashed records with a 135 [Read more]
FROM THE EDITOR: Though Tyler Davis, Owner of Crossover Video and contributor of the weekly #CrossoverInsider is away this week he had wanted to ensure movie lovers in the region still had access to information about the week’s new releases and so provided the summaries below in advance. [Read more]
Kevin Hart has been a busy man over the last couple of years. Since 2014, the diminutive comedian has appeared in ten movies while also performing his stand up comedy routine across the world. In 2014, Hart starred alongside Ice Cube in “Ride Along”, a comedy portraying him as a hapless [Read more]
Movie lovers will be delighted to learn that some of the biggest movies of the year, actually some of the biggest movies ever, will be releasing over the next few weeks. Not a day goes by where we don’t get asked about “The Revenant”, the big budget adventure film which landed Leonardo [Read more]
May the force be with you! Star Wars fans rejoiced when they learned that the rights had been acquired to re-launch the historic and epic franchise. When “The Force Awakens” debuted in theatres, the fans turned out in droves ultimately setting new records. When the dust finally settled, the [Read more]
It was through his directing and writing of Pulp Fiction back in 1994 that movie audiences got their first glimpse of the uncanny stylings of Quentin Tarantino. Since then, Tarantino has entrenched himself as one of Hollywood’s zaniest and most followed directors with other film credits [Read more]
