Dallas Buyers Club

☆☆☆☆1/2

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Look for Matthew McConaughey to be nominated for his performance as Ron Woodroof a Texas cowboy who became HIV positive in the years before approved treatments were available. He took matters into his own hands and illegally obtained unapproved medications and created a buyers' club to get the drugs to people with HIV and AIDS.

Look for a possible Supporting Actor nomination for Jared Leto as well.



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Hand-held camera and the adjustments to the true story may bother some viewers.

Rated R
1 hr. 57 min.

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Lee Daniels' The Butler

☆☆☆☆☆

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“The Butler,” directed by Lee Daniels (“Precious”), and starring Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker as Eugene Allen…a man who served eight presidents during his 30-year employment as a White House butler…is sure to be nominated for Best Picture.

To date this is by far the best film of 2013…not only because of outstanding performances by Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey (among others), but because of it’s power to “move” people. It’s rare when a movie can make an audience laugh, cry, and even applaud.
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Getting past TV icon Oprah took a few minutes, but she gives a performance worthy of an Oscar nomination.

Rated PG-13
2 hr. 6 min.

Visit the official website and see the trailer.