{"id":9199,"date":"2014-07-11T12:07:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9199"},"modified":"2014-07-11T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:09:23","slug":"dvd-vic-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9199","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Vic (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Vic2006\"<\/a>Film<\/strong>: Excellent<\/p>\n

Transfer<\/strong>: \u00a0Excellent<\/p>\n

Extras<\/strong>: Good<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0<\/strong>Moonblood Pictures \/ Grindhouse Releasing<\/a><\/p>\n

Region:<\/strong>\u00a00 (NTSC)<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0December 10, 2013<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0 Drama \/ Short Film<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0After years of working in the margins, a\u00a0down-an-out actor almost misses what may be his last chance to pocket a real role.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Clu Gulager Trailer Gallery \/ Cast & Crew Bios \/ Clu Gulager interview.<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The late Sage Stallone\u2019s half-hour film received a DVD release in late 2013, and it’s a rather bittersweet release, given the film marks the unfulfilled talent of Stallone\u2019s obvious skills as a filmmaker, and a rare starring role for Clu Gulager, whose own career began as an up and coming actor in TV to small feature films, but dovetailed back into TV where he maintained steady appearances in numerous series before officially retiring around 1999.<\/p>\n

Stallone and Will Huston\u2019s story follows a down-and-out-actor \/ faded star who swallows his dignity and reluctantly auditions for a small role. Gulager\u2019s performance is often brutally honest, especially in conveying the pain of a lonely, debt-ridden aging man, and it\u2019s really a showpiece for the Gulager who regards Vic<\/b> as his proper acting swansong, even though he\u2019s made small appearances in the films of son John (including the wretched Piranha 3DD<\/a><\/b>).<\/p>\n

Gulager\u2019s best-known role is as the second-fiddle assassin in Don Siegel\u2019s The Killers<\/b> (1964), and he also took a stab at directing – the haunting short film A Day with the Boys<\/a><\/b> (1969), which should’ve led to more work behind the camera. As Vic<\/b>, Gulager also benefits from being surrounded by a solid cast which includes son Tom, and veteran actors Carol Lynley, Gregory Sierra, John Phillip Law, and Peter Mark Richman (although in fairness, the last three have virtual cameos playing contemporary actors reading for the same part as Vic).<\/p>\n

With a score by Franco Micalizzi and gritty cinematography by son John, it\u2019s a straight-shooting little gem with a finale that\u2019s at least as emotionally grim as Gulager\u2019s own \u201969 short.<\/p>\n

Released in a vintage snapper case by Moonblood Pictures, the DVD includes a lengthy (if not a little bit rambling) interview with Gulager, plus a trailer gallery of the star\u2019s prior work. Stallone, whose sporadic acting includes a supporting role in Rocky V<\/b> (1990), has a quick cameo as a doctor early in the film, but in addition to being Sylvester Stallone\u2019s son, he\u2019s best known for co-founding the indie home video label Grindhouse Releasing, which champions cult films in exhaustive special editions (notably Corruption<\/b>, The Big Gundown<\/b>, and The Swimmer<\/b>). Sage Stallone died in 2012 at the age of 36.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> —\u00a0IMDB<\/a>\u00a0 — Composer Filmography<\/a>
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\nVendor Search Links:<\/strong>
\nAmazon.ca<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.com<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The late Sage Stallone\u2019s half-hour film received a DVD release in late 2013, and it’s a rather bittersweet release, given the film marks the unfulfilled talent of Stallone\u2019s obvious skills as a filmmaker, and a rare starring role for Clu Gulager, whose own career began as an up and coming actor in TV to small feature films, but dovetailed back into TV…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[2882,2885,2883,2884,2881],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2on","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9209,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions\/9209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}