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Week of February 7, 2014

Stubborn people win by capitulation. First up…

Dallas Buyers Club

When told you have 30 days to live, you should go buy furniture you don’t have to pay a cent for until 90 days.

Strangely, the dying man in this drama isn’t interested in ottomans.

In one fell swoop, homophobic bull rider Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is diagnosed with HIV and given one month to live.

Unwilling to accept that fate - but unsatisfied with the approved medicine - Ron and his afflicted friend (Jared Leto) establish a network of ailing buyers for the unsanctioned AIDS medication Ron smuggles in from Mexico.

As he surpasses his death-date, Ron’s struggle against the FDA to distribute the magic pill intensifies; meanwhile the disease cuts down his customer base.

Based on true events, DBC captures the confused climate of the 1980s, while McConaughey embodies the physical and emotional strain of the impartial syndrome.

Thankfully, today, HIV/AIDS is a more manageable STI like pregnancy.  Green Light

Escape Plan

The easiest way to breakout of prison is to shank your way through the concrete walls.

Mind you, the incarcerated pair in this action movie would prefer a less strenuous plan.

Hired by the CIA to escape-proof their maximum-security penitentiary, jailhouse escape artist Ray (Sylvester Stallone) goes undercover as an inmate.

  

In the big house, he aligns himself with Emil (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a con that can help Ray get a message to his outside team (Amy Ryan, Vincent D'Onofrio, 50 Cent).

But a rat on Ray’s side is pulling the strings on the secret lockup, sending the warden (Jim Caviezel) and his men (Vinnie Jones, Sam Neill) to end Ray and Emil’s getaway.

Despite its big names, Escape Plan is a sub par throwback to the poorly acted ‘80s actioneers that made Stallone and Schwarzenegger stars.

Besides, at his age, shouldn’t Stallone be breaking out of an old folks home?  Red Light

***Take Action Hero***

The Ryan White Story

The only disease children had to worry about contracting in the early-1980s was Cabbage Patch Fever.

Unfortunately, as this biography shows, by the mid-1980s HIV/AIDS appeared.

In one fell swoop, 13-year-old Ryan White (Lukas Haas) contracted the virus through a blood transfusion and was given 30-days to live.

But it was not only the disease that weakened him, but his school banning him from attending, out of fear of infection.

Unwilling to accept the fate the doctor had prescribed and the principal has assigned her son, Ryan’s mother (Judith Light) hires a hardnosed lawyer (George C. Scott) to take the school to task.

Based on the true story of one of the first non-homosexuals to get the disease, this heart wrenching made-for-television movie may be schmaltzy, but it helped bring sympathizers to the syndrome.

Mind you, the new poster child for the fight against HIV/AIDS is now Magic Johnson’s robot.

He’s a Medical Miracle Working. He’s the…

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