HIV

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

[7] Matthew McConaughey stars as Ron Woodruff in this true story about a womanizing electrician whose given thirty days to live after doctors discover he carries HIV. The year was 1985 and the American government was loathe to take HIV/AIDS very seriously at the time, with most people believing it was only a ‘gay disease.’ Indeed, Woodruff loses many of his old buddies when they …

The 24th Day (2004)

[6] An HIV-positive man kidnaps a former fling and forcibly tests him for the virus, ready to exact revenge if the test results are positive. Scott Speedman (Felicity, Underworld) plays the aggressor and James Marsden (X-Men, Enchanted) plays the victim. The film is directed by Tony Piccirillo, who also wrote the stage play on which it is based. The main problem with the film is …

The Living End (1992)

[9] Two HIV positive gay men hit the road together, one fleeing a world he bitterly resents and the other searching his soul about how to carry on after receiving his diagnosis. Billed as “an irresponsible movie by Gregg Araki”, The Living End is a lot of things — savage, absurd, political, comical, sexy, and raw are all adjectives that come to mind. The bizarre …