A movie starring Matthew McConaughey as an amateur cowboy and gambler living a wild life in 1980s Dallas wouldn’t be surprising at all—nor would it sound, on its face, like particularly serious ...

In the mid-1980s, the HIV and AIDS epidemic was rampant, misunderstood, and, above all, a time of panic for a great many people. In “Dallas Buyer's Club,” a story based on real-life events, Texas ...