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Predicting the Oscar winners: Best Actor

Who’s going to win Best Actor at Sunday’s Oscar ceremony? Forrest offers his best guess in the latest installment of “Forrest on Film.”

 

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Video Verdict: ‘Django Unchained’

Christoph Waltz, left, and Jamie Foxx star in writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s stylized Western, “Django Unchained.” Both Tarantino and Waltz won Oscars for their work in the film: Waltz for best supporting actor and Tarantino for best original screenplay.

Christoph Waltz, left, and Jamie Foxx star in writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s stylized Western, “Django Unchained.” Both Tarantino and Waltz won Oscars for their work in the film: Waltz for best supporting actor and Tarantino for best original screenplay.

An Oscar-winning Western by writer-director Quentin Tarantino is the only major theatrical release making its way to home video this week.

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Video Verdict: ‘J. Edgar,’ ‘Puss In Boots,’ ‘Tower Heist’

Leonardo DiCaprio plays J. Edgar Hoover and Judi Dench plays his mother, Anna Marie Hoover, in the Clint Eastwood film “J. Edgar.”

This week’s home video releases include an Oscar-nominated animated movie and a historical biopic directed by Clint Eastwood.

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Video Verdict: ‘Inception,’ ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,’ ‘Shrek Forever After’

This week’s major home video releases are all over the map genre-wise, but the best of the batch is a special effects thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Video Verdict: ‘Shutter Island,’ ‘From Paris With Love’

Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a detective sent to investigate a disappearance on an island prison for the criminally insane in the thriller “Shutter Island.”

This week’s home video releases are anchored by a pair of thrillers, one featuring John Travolta and one starring Leonardo DiCaprio under the direction of Martin Scorsese.

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Video Verdict: New DVDs for June 2

Leonardo DiCaprio, left, and Kate Winslet play Frank and April Wheeler in the drama "Revolutionary Road."

Leonardo DiCaprio, left, and Kate Winslet play Frank and April Wheeler in the drama "Revolutionary Road."

It’s a good week for movie lovers because the latest DVDs include two of the finest dramas released into theaters in 2008.

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