The AIDS crisis reached a devastating peak in the mid '80s, a time before cocktail therapies were sustaining life. Then, people were diagnosed and dead within days. Ron Woodroof should've been. The ...

Certain liberties were taken with the facts of Woodroof’s life and, unlike with so many “true stories,” screenwriters Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack have made justifiable, . We meet Woodroof as he’s ...

Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), whose real-life story inspired Dallas Buyers Club, is a rough & tumble Texas oil-rig electrician, small-time hustler and big-time bigot when he learns in 1985 that ...

Having lost 40 pounds to embody AIDS activist Ron Woodroof, Matthew McConaughey may resemble a shadow of his former self in Dallas Buyers Club, but his outsized charisma — here colored with subtle ...

This is the first trailer released for Dallas Buyers Club, the new drama based on the life of Ron Woodroof, who smuggled and sold unlicensed medications when he was diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-’80s ...

“Based on a true story.” The Toronto International Film Festival is full of these fact-based movies: Mandela, 12 Years a Slave (19th-century free black Solomon Northup), The Fifth Estate (Julian ...

When I saw the scene in the Oscar-nominated Dallas Buyers Club in which a sad-eyed doctor told the skeletal Ron Woodroof, played by Matthew McConaughey, that he had full-blown AIDS and would die ...

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Ron Woodroof was about the most unlikely of heroes in the frightening early days of AIDS in the 1980s - a homophobic, cocaine-snorting, sex-addicted Texas rodeo cowboy who crudely ...

Matthew McConaughey is the slimmest he's been since high school. And it isn't because the newlywed has his hands full with two young children and another on the way. McConaughey's dramatic weightloss ...