Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

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Dallas Buyers Club may be a homophobes nightmare seeing as if you don't actually watch it you might think it is this years Brokeback Mountain. Well it isn't while it does have several gay themes and is about AIDS it deals with a person of straight orientation dealing with it in times when it was still thought that homosexuals were the only ones with the disease. It also deals with medical law and ... read more

Day by day, movie by movie he's getting better and better. Who? Matthew McConaughey. I thought 'The Lincoln Lawyer' was his best, but then 'Mud' came and I was shocked about his performance. Now even better in this movie, in fact the best from all of them. The first thing popped out in my mind was the Christian Bale's 'The Machinist'. Because of his weight reduce for the role in the movie was phen... read more

Here is a film that is trying to be two different ones at once, and ends up being merely adequate versions of both. If it wasn’t for Matthew McConaughey’s impressive and strong central performance, Dallas Buyers Club would fold under its own weight and confusion over just which type of movie this is. What wins out more, unfortunately, is Hollywood feel-good hogwash about a scrappy little guy f... read more

The story of Texas electrician Ron Woodroof and his battle with the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies after being diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1986, and his search for alternative treatments that helped established a way in which fellow HIV-positive people could join for access to his supplies.