The Inventive Dallas Buyers Club

AIDS-Early Challenges

If you think that this is going to buy another medical drama -think again.

There's more than meet the eye in this early war against HIV Aids.

The intensity of this medical condition in the early years sparked furious testing of new drugs where most were not approved by the FDA while AZT was on human trials and dosage issues made it toxic resulting in high mortality rates.

Dealing with non-FDA Approved AIDS drugs

One man's fight against the FDA and the other regulatory agencies including the Internal Revenue makes this movie one that is worth spending time to watch.

Dr. Eve and Her Sampling Patients

Matthew McConaughey stars as the inventive AIDS patient Ron Woodroof while Jared Leto played the transsexual role of fellow victim Rayon while Jennifer Gardner is Dr. Eve a co-doctor testing AZT on sampling patients.

Jared Leto as Rayon

Given only 30 days to live, the movie traces the exploits of Woodroof to save himself and fellow victims by circumventing US laws that forbid sales of non-FDA approved drugs. To do so, he started the Dallas Buyers Club where only memberships are sold and drugs are given free to all members that required it. This unrestricted manner of drug delivery showed immeasurable success when only 10% of victims had died.

A Gaunt looking Woodroof

Great movie.

See it to perceive the suffering that AIDS victims undergo to seek treatment in the early years of the onslaught of the disease.

The Glorious Butler of the White House

It's impossible to read all the printed word churned out by authors.

Long Butlership in the White House

A good filter would be when they are transferred into the film medium for a wider audience.

The Butler Ensemble

Serving Eisenhower

 The Butler is one of these.

The Arrival of the  Ill-Fated Kennedys

It chronicles the life and times of a share-cropper son who started life in a lawless cotton plantation who worked himself into a exclusive hotel butler position and finally landed in the White House to serve  US Presidents ranging from Eisenhower right up to Ronald Reagan.

It also sub-plots his family from his hard-drinking wife played by Oprah Winfrey to his two sons.

The Kennedys

As a true testimony of life in America, it chronicles the segregationist era, the Southern state violence culminating in the death of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King , the rise of the Black Panthers, the Watergate scandal and the heralding of an Afro African Barack Obama into the White House.

Living in Troubled Times

Forest Whitaker was awesome in his role as Cecil. Winfrey played her role well too.

Yaya Decosta the Eye Candy

Interesting to watch are the stars who played the Presidents and First Ladies such as Robin Williams as Eisenhower, James Marsden as John Kennedy, Minka Kelly as Jackie,Jane Fonda as Nancy, Liev Schreiber as Johnson, John Cusack as Nixon and Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan.

For me, it a good movie even though it did not get support for the Academy Awards this year