Leverage In Death (In Death, #47)
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas puzzles over a bizarre suicide bombing in a Wall St. office building in the...
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
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Danger once again surrounds Bella (Kristen Stewart), as a string of mysterious killings terrorizes...
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
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Outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) terrorizes 1800s Arizona, especially the Southern Railroad, until he...
T.D. Jakes Conferences
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Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)
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Set four years on from the end of Fallen Kingdom, with dinosaurs now on the mainland, and with the...
Donna (1 KP) rated Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) in Movies
Jul 1, 2018 (Updated Jul 1, 2018)
I hope they do a 3rd and final one, and don't be money grabbing idiots and try and drain it. It would be nice to see how Blue ended up.
It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole 30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways
Dallas Hartwig and Melissa Hartwig
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Food can change your life in unexpected ways. It Starts With Food will show you how by outlining a...
Mayhem (2017)
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A virus infects a corporate law office on the day that attorney Derek Cho is framed by a co-worker...
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Blood is thicker than water. Joe Pickett has good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, rodeo champion....
JT (287 KP) rated Dallas Buyers Club (2013) in Movies
Mar 10, 2020
Ron Woodroof is a hustling, homophobic, bull-riding, womanising, sometimes-electrician, whose life revolves around excess drugs, alcohol and female copulation. But after a freak accident leads to doctors discovering he’s HIV positive, Ron is forced to re-examine his priorities.
With his hillbilly friends shunning him and the back-alley supply of the drug that could prolong his life cut off, Woodroof heads across the border to Mexico in search of alternative treatments. When he realises that the medication he’s given isn’t available in the US, he seizes the opportunity to make a quick buck.
Along the way he encounters fellow AIDS sufferer and cross-dresser Rayon (Leto) with whom he strikes an unlikely partnership in forming the Dallas Buyers Club, as well as Dr. Eve Saks (Garner) who becomes increasingly sympathetic to his plight.
McConaughey’s extreme physical transformation for the lead role is in itself worthy of great praise and his Oscar-winning turn is one of outstanding range and capability, portraying all the raw emotions Woodroof is forced to conflict as the character himself is changed irrevocably throughout the film’s two hour duration.
The scenes shared by Rayon – another remarkable performance from Leto – and Woodruff are triumphant and their relationship continually brings light relief to a backdrop of struggle as The Dallas Buyers Club fights what always seems like a losing battle with the FDA.
Much like Philadelphia, this film highlights the many struggles and injustices faced by early AIDS sufferers, not just in getting the medication they needed to survive, but also the prejudices they were forced to endure. It’s an exceptional piece of cinema that everyone should take the time to see.