A Good Baby

Starring:Henry Thomas, David Strathairn, Cara Seymour, Danny Nelson, Jayne Morgan, Allison Glenn, Jerry Foster, Jerry Rushing, Emilie Jacobs, Hannah Grady, Danny Vinson, Lance Holland, Bob Post, Palma Kauppert, April Chapman, Chester Ervin, Chris Levi, Rhoda Griffis, Caroline Hunter Wallace, Kia Baden
Director: Katherine Dieckmann
Studio: Fox Lorber
Product Type: DVD

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Triplet Mom's LIFESAVER
Very Bad
Sort of scary...
Very Relaxing!
Very Relaxing Video

Baby Songs - Good Night
Starring: Hap Palmer
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B0002B15ME
Release Date: 2004-08-31

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This award-winning series entertains babies with colorful images, and toddlers through first-graders with familiar situations and concerns. This installment features lullabies designed for naptime, your too-tired-to-read-aloud nights, or those times when the kids just need to calm down. Accompanying the songs are kid-style music videos featuring such whimsical fantasies as rocking grandmas floating in mid-air, kids playing with their favorite stuffed animal suddenly grown life-size, and teddy bears in formal wear waltzing the afternoon away. Sleep-deprived parents will appreciate the frazzled couple playing bed merry-go-round with their two young ones in "Sleep On." In case you're worried about exposing your own children to this worst-case scenario, an alternative universe is presented in "I Sleep Till the Morning (I do not wake too soon)." Just keep playing that one over and over and over and maybe it will take. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Customer Reviews:

Triplet Mom's LIFESAVER.......2007-06-03

Ok, to begin with I had no idea who Hap was. I just knew that I didn't want my triplets hooked on broadcast TV stuff that was full of marketing, commercials, etc. So we ordered BabyFirstTV (kinda like HBO for babies) and during the programming they would show these videos. It didn't take long for me to notice that my kids were MESMERIZED by Palmer's music videos. I quickly recognized the prints and hairstyles from my own childhood (80's kid) and went on a search until I found the DVD's here. The kids LOVED them and now that they are almost two they actually ask for them by name. I would HIGHLY recommend these DVD's to anyone who is interested in exposing their children to music, rhyming, social skills, development skills, sillyness and laughter via your DVD player. I am not saying they take the place of actual experiences but they sure do enhance them. You don't know how handy it is to get your triplet toddlers to quickly cooperate and follow instructions by just singing a simple song to them. Anyway, long story short.... WE LOVE HAP PALMER AND THESE DVDs!

Very Bad.......2006-11-20

Strange, scary, and not musical at all. The images are scary - grandmas flying through the air - baby cribs under water surrounded by giant fish looking like they'll eat the babies. Music/songs are completely un-tuneful and instantly forgetful. Images have little if anything to do with the songs. I want my money back on this one.

Sort of scary..........2006-02-12

My 8 year old daughter and I found parts of this movie somewhat freaky (although the two year old did fine). The song called "Lovey" depicts stuffed animals suddenly becoming life-sized during the day. The final vignette made my 8 year old cover her eyes - it depicts a scary looking puppet/dummy (as if in an old horror show or twilight zone, like a ventriloquist would use) that suddenly opens it HUGE eyes, flies around the room (bed and all), and opens up the window. We did NOT find this movie restful, although we like the other BabySongs videos...

Very Relaxing!.......2005-02-24

My 18 month old loves to drift off to sleep while watching this video. It is relaxing for the entire family, which helps my son fall asleep easily. I am going to get the CD version to play in his room at night. (I don't believe it's available at Amazon, but if you search it, other links come up for Hap Palmer CD's) We are big fans of all the Baby Songs videos and CD's so far. My son loves to dance to them and is even starting to sing with them.

Very Relaxing Video.......2003-03-15

We have 17 month old twins that like to watch a video at night while they drink their milk. They love the Brainy Baby and Baby Einstein series but we get tired of playing the same videos over and over. We were pleasantly surprised to find our daughter had fallen asleep to the video four nights in a row! She is always the one to fight sleep. The video is very different from what we expected but enjoyable and relaxing. I would recommend this video as a good one to wind your child down at night.

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Babies out of Control!!!
A unrelenting snoooooooze fest.
A very, VERY long distance from "Genius"
Horrible
great kids film

Baby Geniuses
Starring: Kathleen Turner , Christopher Lloyd , Kim Cattrall , Peter MacNicol , and Dom DeLuise
Director: Bob Clark (III)
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ASIN: B00000J2KA
Release Date: 1999-07-27

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When babies babble or draw, adults jokingly say they know what the baby is trying to communicate. What if a clinic found that these babblings and doodles were actually very intelligent responses or scribbling of an ancient form of communication? Well, it seems that all it would create is this tepid comedy. Kathleen Turner runs the clinic that believes babies have "universal knowledge" before they learn to speak (and dumb down). What she plans to do with this knowledge is never really understood, but know this: the plans are evil. The secret lives of babies have been pretty adorably filmed previously with Look Who's Talking, but here the babies talk and move via visual effects like the animals in Babe. They also karate chop adults and talk about such adorable things as "diaper gravy." By the time the story (a variation of The Parent Trap) heats up (relatively speaking), there is not much left to engage us except some cute babies that just look odd as effects take over their mouths and movements. --Doug Thomas

Customer Reviews:

Babies out of Control!!!.......2007-03-02

Kathleen Turner, star of Romancing the Stone (1986), Body Heat (1981), is the star of Baby Geniuses and plays the same character as she did in Body Heat...as a sexy seductress with her own evil lust and plans for meanness in a PG kind of way. One thing, little babies is what this movie is geared towards. Not kids, not adults, babies.

Christopher Lloyd is there, and it doesn't help the pain. Basically, all babies are geniuses, and Kathleen Turner is the antagonist. I didn't buy this movie, but, afterwards, I had to, because it is soooo stupid. If you are feeling the need to laugh at something, this too, is a movie for you.

A unrelenting snoooooooze fest........2005-07-23

If you ever wondered what a look who's taking meets james bond movie would be like shame on you. It's ideas like that make crappy movies. Don't see this movie it'll be the worst movie you'll ever see. And if you kid keeps on bugging you to watch with them tell them you have a head ache because by the end you will by the stupity of this film.

A very, VERY long distance from "Genius".......2005-07-14

In my unending quest to add the next big "trash classic" to my DVD collection, "Baby Geniuses" was highly recommended by many of my fellow schlock-cinema mavens. Sadly, I found nothing "classic" about the flick... but the "trash" part definitely was showing through with each excruciating frame. I found myself overwhelmed with chagrin and disgust at every turn of this low-rent "Home Alone" wannabe. This sad waste of celluloid depicts some of the most UN-witty "witty" dialogue and the most UN-snappy "snaps", insults, rejoinders, and comebacks I've ever forced myself to sit through. And the dialogue between the "babies" (actually, more like young toddlers) ain't no picnic, either! I DID get a kick outta seein' Dom DeLuise get hit in the "forbidden zone" with a monkey wrench, though. I've always felt he needed to have that done to him... in real life... at least once a day. What can I say: I'm a sensitive, empathetic humanitarian type...

Bottom line: I'd have had a better time striking myself in the head with a ball-peen hammer for an hour-and-a-half than I did watching this sad loss of precious quality time. Show this bad-boy to yer young'un only if you want to frighten him/her into never, ever watching kiddie flicks ever again. However, if you're a sick eff who takes sadistic delight in seeing Christopher Lloyd, Kathleen Turner, and Kim Cattrall working some of the worst roles in their spotty acting careers, "Baby Geniuses" might just be what you've been lookin' for..

`Late

Horrible.......2005-04-19

I'm sorry to those who liked it but I rented it and it was a waste of money. i fell asleep 40 minutes into it. I don't know, maybe its just boring to see babies talking like adults. I'm not bothering to see the 2nd one.

great kids film.......2005-04-11

Dont be fooled by the mean reviews others give this movie. In a kids point of view its great. the comedy makes everyone laugh and the plot lines are well thought out. me and my friends love this movie and find the slapstick adult vs kids thing helarious, evern when we were too young to get some of the jokes. its a really nice kid or family film that i think everyone will love. I should know, I have seen the movie 8 times and I am only 12.

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Sheba, Baby
I wasn't feeling this one baby.
Pam Grier, Forever!
Worth it just to see Pam in a wetsuit
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Sheba, Baby
Starring: Pam Grier , Austin Stoker , D'Urville Martin , Rudy Challenger , and Dick Merrifield
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ASIN: B000053VBD
Release Date: 2001-01-09

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Pam Grier combines big guns and fantastic '70s outfits in Sheba, Baby. After roughly 4,000 establishing shots of Chicago in the opening credits, private eye Sheba Shayne (Grier) immediately heads to Louisville, where thugs are leaning on her father's business, trying to get him to sell out. The police, alas, are no help, but never fear--Sheba is the kind of private dick who doesn't shy away from dunking a man's face in toxic chemicals to get the information she needs. She soon finds herself going head-to-head with a crime lord named Pilot, and the butt kicking begins. Sheba, Baby offers giant ties, big guns, and a firefight on speedboats, and yes, of course there's a catfight. Mandatory viewing. --Ali Davis

Description

Super sexy soul sister Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) is hotter than dynamite in a role she fills with fiery determination. Proving she's cool, tough and glamorousa female fantasy Wonder Woman (Los Angeles Times), Grier delivers a riveting, gutsy performance in this hard-hitting thriller that leaps from one death-defying scene to the next. Sheba Shayne is a private eye summoned to her hometown to help her father stop the mob from moving in on his loan business. But she gets too close to the fire, narrowly escaping the blast of a car bomb. Gunning for justice, Sheba vows to take revenge. Packing a .44 Magnum, a machine gun and a couple of surprises that will blow the bad guys away, she leaves a blazing trail of blood in her wake and puts the mob on the defensive until she's duped into an ingenious plot that could flatten her curves forever.

Customer Reviews:

Sheba, Baby.......2007-01-04

Let me start by saying I'm a big Pam Grier fan but this movie was one of her worse efforts. I don't know if it was just the particular disc I have but the sound was awful. I had to turn up the sound to a rediculous volume level just to barely hear it. Typical of "Blaxplotation" films the plot was weak, the violence gratuitous and the villians one dimentional. Our heroine looked good as usual but if you're looking for skin this isn't your film.

I wasn't feeling this one baby........2006-10-18

If I had to describe `Sheba Baby,' the best I can come up with is Pam Grier Light with some really bad mellow drama. I really tried, but this movie just didn't work for me. The action scenes were dull, the acting was surprisingly poor, and some of these characters were TOO stereotypical to even be funny.

This Pam Grier film is incredibly tame. It's nowhere near as violent as some of her earlier films. Gone are the over-the-top images of Pam placing a small revolver or razor blades in her afro. Pilot (D'Urville Martin) and his crew can't hold a candle to some of the real villains Pam faced in her previous movies. It's strictly by-the-numbers and almost has a made-for-TV feel. As for the bad acting, the baddies that Pam faces off with are as unnatural sounding in their delivery as I've seen. As a result, characters like Pilot don't come across as threatening as they should or need to for the movie to work.

That's not to say there aren't moments or elements in `Sheba Baby' that I didn't enjoy it's just that when compared with Pam's other films like `Coffy,' `Foxy Brown,' and even `Friday Foster' that the movie fails. It is not one of her best performances, though. Her "avenging angel" persona has been soften quite a bit, so she is forced to rely mostly on her natural charm. Still, I had fun with this film. A bit of a letdown, but definitively worth watching for the sake of curiosity.

Pam Grier, Forever!.......2005-12-11

This is the first of Pam Grier's efforts that I would not lump wholly in the exploitation category. Sure, there's lots of gunplay and a redundant catfight. That said, the dialogue here avoids the tongue-and-cheek quality that was evident in "Coffy" and "Foxy Brown" and the villains here are more realistic and not as cartoonish. The underlying theme here are the underworld elements that threaten legitimate black entrepreneurs. Because the film deals with the threat more seriously the message becomes more potent. Even in this low-budget effort Grier just commands the screen like any of her contemporaries and would give a run for the money for today's top actresses. She was definitely ahead of her time. I can't recall if Halle Berry thanked her in her Oscar speech. She does not appear nude here but she looks so fabulous clothed that your imagination will do somersaults. Timeless entertainment.

Worth it just to see Pam in a wetsuit.......2005-04-28

This may not be Pam Grier's best film, but I give it high marks, because there's a long stretch towards the end of the film where we see her in a sexy blue beavertail wetsuit. She keeps the jacket unzipped about half way through most of it, so you can get a good, alluring view of her chest. Sure, she has a swimsuit on under the wetsuit, but I find that more interesting anyway. Lets one use one's imagination, I say. You can't ask for more than a beautiful woman in a beavertail wetsuit (and if you ARE asking for things like character development, fine acting, etc you're really looking in the wrong place).

Also Bad TandA.......2002-08-31

If you're looking for sexy scenes, and why else would you watch these movies, don't waste your time.

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A disappointing waste of widescreen photography
Not that bad at all !
Fulci Misses The Mark
Why I Never Wanted a Sandbox
Lucio fulci did it again the master in terror#1

Manhattan Baby
Starring: Enzo Marino Bellanich , Brigitta Boccoli , Andrea Bosic , Cosimo Cinieri , and Christopher Connelly
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
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ASIN: B000059PQ8
Release Date: 2001-05-22

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A disappointing waste of widescreen photography.......2006-03-29

I thought if I finally watched "Manhattan Baby" on DVD in widescreen rather than the poor full-screen video copies of it that were previously available, I'd be able to re-appraise it, but sadly, I still find that it's among Lucio Fulci's worst efforts. Fulci displays no evidence whatsoever in this movie that he knows what to shoot to make an interesting or suspenseful film. Half the time, he can find nothing worth putting in front of the lens except extreme close-ups of the actors eyes. Time and time again, the camera zooms in for lingering close-ups of the actors eyes, when there could have been - there must have been - so many other creative possibilities to choose from...did nobody point this out?

Anyway, whatever the artistic "vision" was supposed to be, the story goes roughly as follows: A husband and wife take their young daughter on a trip to Egypt, so that the husband can investigate an ancient tomb, and the wife can take pictures of all the tourist sights. The daughter, Suzy, wanders off alone and is ambushed by an Egyptian crone who gives her a mysterious amulet. (Cue the first of many extreme close-ups of eyes, and of the amulet, which also bears the design of an eye). At the same time the husband is blinded by a flash of blue light that emanates from a forbidden burial chamber that he has just discovered. Back in New York, the family is reunited with Suzy's younger brother Tommy (played by the same child actor who played Bob in "House By The Cemetery" ), and their nanny. From this point on, Suzy begins to act strangely, wandering about the house (cue extreme close-ups of eyes), scaring the nanny by playing odd hide and seek games with Tommy (cue more extreme close-ups of eyes), and putting the amulet in various random places for some unfathomable kind of dramatic focus (cue more extreme close-ups of the amulet). While all this inconsequential nonsense is going on, the parents of the children drift in and out of the action, occasionally looking fraught or troubled at the goings on (cue more close ups of eyes, naturally). A few people die in unremarkable ways. The end of the film sees Suzy fall more perilously under the spell of the amulet (cue more close-ups of the amulet) and the struggle to save her by a mysterious antique shop owner who comes to visit Suzy and tells the worried family that he can undo the curse (cue more close-ups of eyes).

Watching this film is only slightly more fun than watching paint dry. Fulci seems to have entirely run out of ideas about how to make a film that is visually stimulating - there is nothing even approaching interesting on the screen for about 90% of the running time. Just endless talking heads and those never ending eye close-ups. The trademark gore scenes are all but absent, save for one right near the end when a character is attacked by stuffed birds. The slant that the birds are stuffed rather than alive - having supposedly been re-animated by the evil power - is quite a good one, but sadly you can see the wires carrying them around the room in EVERY SINGLE shot during the attack. At least there were some good old-school close ups of bloody flesh-pecking to wake me up at this stage, but the film was over an hour and twenty minutes through by this time...far too late for redeeming the movie as a whole.

The dubbing is also terrible, the worst I have seen for a long time. Especially of the children. When an instant photo turns out badly, Suzy exclaims chirpily "It's a dud, defective stock!"...What the...? And when the parents ask where the babysitter has vanished to, young Tommy exlaims "She's gone on a voyage!" A voyage? What 8 year old boy uses words like "voyage"? It's almost a shame to see poor Giovanni Frezza, who appears to be an unselfconscious and lively child actor, crippled by such a hideous dubbed script. At least be thankful he does not have the same sounding voice he had in "The House by the Cemetery", which similarly ruined his character. But the fault lies way beyond pinning this on lame performances (Although I would have loved to see Katherine MaColl take the role as the mother rather than the lacklustre Martha Taylor, and Christopher Connelly is equally forgettable as the father.). There is really nothing worth keeping your attention on the screen for. A passably attractive prologue filmed on location in Egypt soon gives way to the rest of the film almost entirely taking place in the family's nondescript apartment. The antique shops looks like the set of the basement from "The House by the Cemetery" with just the cobwebs removed, and even the music is lifted from previous Fulci films, most notably some very recogniseable music from "The Beyond". How any self-respecting director can just re-use a score that was (one would presume) originally composed to match the story and atmosphere of one of his previous films is beyond me.

The plot, as usual, does not serve up anything cohesive to the audience, so without any arresting visuals or jolting gore scenes, watching the film is a pretty boring experience. There's no climactic ending, just a rather tame suggestion of the cyclical recurrence of the evil curse, the origins or intentions of which are never explained anyway during the entire plot. And as if you hadn't had enough by now, the film closes with - yes you guessed it - more extreme close ups of eyes and another, final (thank god!) close up of the wretched amulet, not that the sight of it produced any sense of dread throughout the whole dreary story. I will allow that there have been reports of imposed conditions behind the making of "Manhattan Baby" that lead Fulci to make some severe compromises, but he has to take responibility for what he delivered to his audience, and he should be ashamed of the undeniable weakness of the end result.

Not that bad at all !.......2005-09-12

Lucio Fulci's "MANHATTAN BABY" is not even close to his best effort,but just like "SWEET HOUSE OF HORROR" it has its tiny moments of Fulci's atmospheric & gorey brilliance. A sure shot for Fulci fans! all others should rent before buying!

Fulci Misses The Mark.......2004-03-28

Italian horror will never be seen as art to the masses. Even the hardcore fans admit to the cheesiness as being part of the attraction to them, but even though it's a trashy kind of genre, you can screw up! Lucio Fulci screwed up here. To people now taking an interest in Fulci, I'm sure this dvd cover has stared out at you from the shelf at the store and beckoned you to take it home . Don't listen to it! Yeah, it's Fulci, and yeah, it's from Anchor Bay, but don't let that fool you. Manhattan Baby is BAD, even for a Fulci film. With most of his horror films you could always guarantee to have a fun viewing experience, but this is actually quite painful. Everything you love about his previous works is nowhere to be found here. Fulci was actually trying to make a real horror film with suspense and stuff. Many directors accomplish this, but Fulci never has, and he certainly doesn't here. Fulci's films excel in atmosphere, music, gore, cheesiness and just downright strangeness. This film has none of that. It's basically a reworking of the Charleton Heston mummy flick, The Awakening-which was no masterpiece, but better than this. The only purpose this dvd will serve is to make your Italian horror dvd collection look bigger, coz it will get only one or maybe two viewings-mark my words! You just may be better off investing in a Kiss Koffin. That will at least get more use.

Why I Never Wanted a Sandbox.......2002-06-28

Manhattan Baby, considered a failure by many critics that wanted Fulci to conform to the formula of horror that made him successful, was actually one of his more entertaining movies. This was because it did break from the proverbial mould, building more on a storyline and an ever-present, overwhelming scene of doom. Unlike many of his earlier movies (Zombie, The Beyond) that brought this bleak overview with them as well, Lucio decided to try a new avenue in this presentation, one that only briefly sprinkled gore into the cinematic formula, causing much of the fallout experienced. He said that he wanted to present a more metaphysical terror, using a small array of special effects in the process, that would give his film a more Catholicist, "evil can be beaten but not truly destroyed," mentality. Well, mission accomplished.
The storyline, with its Egyptian focal point, deals with the manifestation of an ancient evil that is awaken (and overused) by a little girl after her foolishly curious archeologist father prods at things best left alone. It has some nice scenes with pieces of dark humor mixed together with catchy "manifesations/proofs of the dark forces present," plus some humorously cheap scenes that keep the movie from taking itself too serious. All in all, its fun and a bit dark at the same time, and is a good film for horror lovers/Lucio fans that remember his Sci-fi trials/Westerners and not simply his gore films.

Lucio fulci did it again the master in terror#1.......2002-05-24

this is another of his best movie ever done .i love it because
it started in a egypt pyramid were they frist meet a supernatural
evil the shock the archeolest.this movie cautains blood an some
gut scenes but is a very scary film.i love tomb films the will surprise you its uncut you must see it.recomened Zombie,domonia,
house by the sementary.the black cat.by henry. May23,2002 thurday

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The Fourth Installment Of Lone Wolf And Cub!
"This kid has the eyes of one who has killed thousands".
Terrific
This is the review you been looking for!! READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Entertaining, still has its style

Lone Wolf and Cub - Baby Cart in Peril
Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama , Yoichi Hayashi , Michie Azuma , Akihiro Tomikawa , and Asao Koike
Director: Buichi Saito
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ASIN: B0001FR3JU
Release Date: 2004-06-08

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The Fourth Installment Of Lone Wolf And Cub!.......2007-01-03

You have to hand it to the late Tomisaburo Wakayama, he was definitely different than many of the characters to come out of 1970s. I first saw this film years ago, and always thought this particular episode was one of the better ones of the series. For those who are not used to this type of action type of ninja-samurai style of film, keep an open mind. These are not Kurosawa, or Kobayashi type of films, however, that does not mean they are not entertaining. First of all though, be prepared for plenty of violence and mayhem. As the character Ogami (Tomisaburo Wakayama), [brother of the late Shintaro Katsu of Zatoichi fame] was larger in life than many characters who came out of the 1970s.

This is fun, exciting, and don't take it too serious enjoyment. What I always liked about the Lone Wolf and Cub series was that it was hilariously different than many of the films that were available in the USA: if you were lucky enough to catch them at the theatres. Since I spent a lot of time at theatres with my best friend in downtown Los Angeles, I was exposed to these types of films. I have come to understand that these films have been released as a package, and that the films are very well restored. I have not seen these new DVD releases, however, I would recommend that you purchase the set as a whole, if all six episodes are packaged together, and the price is reasonable. Since I already have these in the format as they are, I am content with these for now. Give these films a chance, they are interesting, and truly enjoying films. [Stars: 4.5]

"This kid has the eyes of one who has killed thousands". .......2006-08-08

Ogammi has to track down and kill a nude female assassin for our viewing pleasure in the 4th installment of the LW and C series. Once again, Tomisaburo Wakayama puts on one of the greatest acting performances I have ever seen. In this one we find out the reason that Ogami's house was always meant to be destroyed from the day he was appointed as the Shogun's second. Of course the Yagyu are involved and of course you are guaranteed to see some of the greatest action ever when Ogami slices up everybody in the super long final fight. One thing that you find out in this movie is that Ogami Itto is not invincible. That certainly makes things more interesting.

I have the Red Sun distributed version of this. The DVD is anamorphically widescreeded with flaws that can only be seen with a magnifying glass. The trailers have 2 Zatoichi ones and 2 LW and C ones including Baby Cart in Peril. The real special feature is the liner notes. They continue to bring important information up like the Shadow Sword technique among a few other things.

Terrific.......2006-07-25

Here's a lesson in the value of reading on-disk liner notes. There are four short pages of notes on Animeigo's version of LONE WOLF AND CUB: BABY CART IN PERIL.

Page one tells about the Mountain Witch and Kintaro. Both legendary figures in Japan. The mountain witch, or yamauba, is the `fairy of the mountains,' old and haggard in appearance with a thin face and wild white hair. The mountain witch cares for the mountains; kintaro is a child of super-human strength and skills, something like our Paul Bunyan, I guess. Important stuff to know because the character Ogami Itto (Tomisaburo Wakayama,) the ronin Lone Wolf, has contracted to kill (for the usual 500 pieces of gold) is the beautiful young Oyuki, who has been slaughtering the Yagyu clansmen sent out to assassinate her. Oyuki has a tattoo of the Mountain Witch on her back and one of a nipple-seeking Kintaro covering her chest. Besides being a superbly skilled warrior, the lovely Oyuki will distract her opponents by removing her blouse while in battle. Whatever it takes to awe and shock.

Page two describes the `Yagyu New Shadow Style' of swordscraft. Lone Wolf and Cub is set in 17th century Japan, and every episode I've seen so far - this is my third - concentrates on sword fighting styles and techniques. The New Shadow Style is the type favored by Yagyu Gunbei, Ogami's bitter rival. Ogami, as we're reminded in every film, was the Shogun's Official Executioner until betrayed by the pernicious Retsudo. Gunbei was a disciple of Retsudo's, and he fought Ogami for the Executioner position and, save for what may have been a technicality (watch the film and decide for yourself,) defeated Ogami. Although each film in the series tells a particular story - in this case that of Oyuki and Ogami's contract to kill her - they all also flesh out the big story. I really should have started these in sequence, but I've been picking them up haphazardly. In any event, the Gunbei-Ogami rivalry is fleshed out in this one, even though it hasn't a whole lot to do with the main story.

Page three tells us about the goumune, or `street beggars,' of feudal Japan. Lone Wolf and Cub spend a lot of time traveling through the poorer communities of Japan and observing the outcasts and the looked down upon. As the goumune clan leader observes to a rude Yagyu thug sent by the Shogun to bring Ogami back, in a speech that distantly echoes words Shakespeare wrote for Shylock, the goumune may be reviled and looked down upon, but they eat, drink, and expel waste like any other human. And, like any other human, they value courtesy and a show of respect. Translated into terms I can understand - roughly and imperfectly translated, I realize - the goumune are something like the dirt farmers in westerns. Like I said, it's a rough translation - goumune are valued less than `human beings,' according to the notes, at a ratio of about 7 to 1. Still, in terms of firepower a group like the Yagyu clan - Ogami's chief enemies since the betrayal that forced his with-cub exile in a land between heaven and hell, between life and death - a group like the Yagyu clan have it all over the goumune. Not unlike the big bad ranchers pushing around the frightened and huddled sod busters in a lot of westerns.

We learn the Owari fief was a major commercial crossroads during the time the events in this movie took place on page four.

Lone Wolf's willingness to mingle with and befriend, and at times defend, the despised, sets him apart as a true samurai. Or a classic cowboy hero, come to think of it. He's imperturbable to the point of being a sphinx and proficient as heck with the sword. There's a lot of blood in these movies - when a bad guy gets his legs cut off at the knees the prop department empties a couple of quarts of krylon red #5 all over everything. In this movie alone I'd guess they were buying the stuff in 50-gallon drums. It may have played brutal in 1972, but it just seems a little cartoonish today. Not in a bad way, mind you. Lone Wolf and Cub was born of a Japanese comic book series and these movies are vividly visual. If the strange names and customs make watching this movie sound like work, it's not. They're a lot of fun, very well produced, visually pleasing, and containing a hero-and-a-half you can root for.

This is the review you been looking for!! READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!.......2004-10-04

This movie is maybe the best of the Lone Wolf and Cub series and I tell you why:

- I saw four movies of Lone Wolf and Cub:
* WHITE HEAVEN IN HELL is good because Ogami Itto (main character) use everithing he got to kill the bad guys but that battle is more like a Ski battle in a snow mountain.
* LAND OF DEMONS is also good because Ogami battle many enemies in a big dojo with one sword like Uma Thurman did in Kill Bill and he use the lance only a few times.
* SWORD OF VENGANCE is the original and he only use the sword and the lance like in LAND OF DEMONS.
* This one (Baby Car in Peril) is the best because he use the sword, the lance, the machine gun, the two swords, small shurikens and blades like in WHITE HEAVEN IN HELL but this time the settings are in a war camp.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS Thank you for lisen!!!!

Entertaining, still has its style.......2004-08-23

In this 4th installment of the series, Director Misumi Kenji was replaced by Saito Buichi -- although I feared the series' quality would deteriorate, I was pleasantly surprised at the nuances Saito lent in his own adaptation.

Still only a third of the way through the manga series myself, "Baby Cart in Peril" adopts episodes from early volumes and introduces a later (for me: unknown) episode that involves (finally!) a showdown between Ogami and Retsudo!

As usual, the film does a good job giving screen time to other characters allowing them to develop. O-Yuki, the assassin willing to bare her vengeance, is a powerful and interesting character. Daigoro gets more and more screen time as in this movie for the first time, he wanders off alone. The little boy is so charming in this film (like the third installment) -- I love his scowls: talk about inhabiting a character. Combined with the nearly concrete stare of Ogami (actor Wakayama Tomisaburo), this movie confirms it still has the magic. Somehow these nearly opaque actors convey incredible emotion. I just wish I knew what Wakayama was looking at -- he never eyes the action or the camera directly.

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There are no reinforcements!
Superb western with great appeal
Richard Spence's Blind Justice
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Blind Justice
Starring: Armand Assante , Elisabeth Shue , Robert Davi , Adam Baldwin , and Ian McElhinney
Director: Richard Spence
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ASIN: B000059H7N
Release Date: 2001-05-08

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In this action-packed western, Assante is Canaan, a roving gunfighter, blinded in the Civil War. But justice isn't only blind, it's deadly. Canaan takes on the ruthless Alacran who is holding a small town hostage for a stash of government silver.

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blind justice.......2006-11-11

I have had this title on LD for years, but when it was available on DVD, decided to get it. It is unique in the content and I did like the soundtrack, it was unusual. There'I've Said a lot without giving too much away. Regards' Dewarren.

There are no reinforcements!.......2004-10-03

Borrowing freely from westerns traditional and Italian, as well as from the Japanese Zatoichi series (blind swordfighter/masseur), BLIND JUSTICE works much better, and is a lot more enjoyable, than a mere plot description would indicate.
Armand Assante plays Canaan, a man blinded in Civil War. We see him first dressed in a black duster and wearing thick smoked glasses, walking across the desert with an infant bundled in his arms. Three Mexican banditos approach, whooping and hollering and firing their guns in the air. Canaan is dust, and if he manages to get out of this scrape he crawls into myth.
Although we're led to believe that Canaan retains some sight, his condition seems to have enhanced his other senses to a remarkable degree. Enough so that he's able to hear a scorpion walking across a hitching post from twenty feet and shoot it without touching the hand it was about to crawl onto.
The plot demands all of his super acute faculties. Canaan finds himself in a town under siege. A decimated U.S. Calvary unit is holed up in the local church, sitting on a wagon full of silver and threatened by the dreaded bandit king Alacran (Robert Davi) and his merciless minions. Oh, yeah, and there's that nurse Caroline (Elizabeth Shue) that he's got to kind of fall for, too.
Assante is a great actor, and makes his incredible character believable. The action is well choreographed and fast paced, save for a few flashblacks strategically thrown in to fill in Canaan's back story. I'm not sure we need to know how or why Canaan was blinded, but we find out anyway.
BLIND JUSTICE is compelling and an ingenious western.

Superb western with great appeal.......2003-08-02

The plot of this 1994 HBO movie is fairly simple with a sprinkling of more complex sub-plots, but essentially this movie is about a blind man (played by Armand Assante) on a quest. This western works very well with the exception of one mediocre performance in the female role, but very few [if any] of us watch westerns for the love interest. The strength of this movie is in Assante's excellent performance, as well as the universal appeal this movie will have across the board for fans of traditional American westerns and European [spaghetti] westerns alike. The director seems to borrow heavily from earlier ideas of Corbucci, Garrone and Colizzi, with a healthy measure of John Ford and Howard Hawks influence combined, to create a unique film in the western genre. I have no idea what HBO intended when they funded this film, but in a 2003 era of Dungeons and Dragons and a post-democratic society a little grit, guns and gore goes a long way! Highly recommend.

Richard Spence's Blind Justice.......2002-05-24

Although derivative of many Oriental films, this short little western still packs a punch.

Assante is a nearly blind gunfighter traveling with a baby. He is looking for the baby's mother, asking everyone he finds about the town she is supposed to be in. He stops in one town where a group of soldiers is guarding a shipment of silver, which is being eyed by the local banditos. The soldiers, trapped, send Assante out for help. All hell breaks loose.

Assante is very good as the embittered gunfighter (and often very funny). His blindness never becomes gimmicky, although one has to wonder how he can ride a horse. He uses his hearing and sense of smell to shoot, how does he know in which direction the horse is going? Adam Baldwin, as the soldier's sergeant, is great, as he distances himself even further from the Baldwin brothers (no, he is not one of them, he can act). Robert Davi has his best role since "Licence to Kill" as the main villain. The one cast liability here is Oscar nominee Elisabeth Shue.

Shue delivers all of her lines in a flat monotonal vaguely-Valley Girl accent. She should be banned from doing any period films ever again. She has one embarassing nude scene, if you can call it that. At one point, she is sitting on a bed in her corset, and you can see part of her nipple mashed up out of her undergarment. It does not look erotic, it looks painful. Assante and Shue's forced romance is also the weakest part of the script.

One scene to watch for is in the climax as a major character is blown through the doors of a building. I rewound that three times just to bask in an action shot I had never seen before.

This feels like the first film of a proposed series that never came to fruition, and with an 85 minute running time, you have to wonder what they cut out. However, I do recommend "Blind Justice."

This is rated (R) for physical violence, strong gun violence, some sexual violence, some gore, profanity, very brief female nudity, and some adult situations.

The Greatest Movie Ever Made.......2000-02-29

BLIND JUSTICE is, without a doubt, the greatest movie ever made. More color sequences than CITIZEN KANE, fewer Italian thugs than THE GODFATHER, and by far more horses than CHINATOWN. Above all, it is superbly written. Knauf is a genius.

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A good baby under unfortunate circumstances.......2005-02-17

Raymond Toker under a surprising set of circumstances, found a baby while he was squirrel hunting.
Not knowing what to do with it, he tried in vain to give it to some of the local folks, but was unsucessful.
He finally decided to try to care for it him self.
Unbeknownst to Ramond the real father who was a shady character, was trying to get the baby for himself.
In order not to reveal any more than I already have, Ill just say that every thing, after a lot of tormoil, turned out OK for the baby, and Raymond.

An Unforgettable Experience........2003-10-12

This is a beautiful, haunting, unforgettable movie. The characters depict a dignity & simplicity, true to the mountain people of NC. It's clear this movie was made with great love & dedication to the art of storytelling. The scenery is so beautiful. The music is forever in my heart. Is there a soundtrack available?

A great Movie.......2002-07-30

I enjoyed this movie greatly but I also can't say that I am impartial I also worked for the movie company that made this film I was the medic on the set and saw all the hard work that everyone put into this movie. I think Cara Seymour is a great talented actress and when I got a chance at seeing the movie I was totally surprised I loved it and think that everyone that likes a good story and a great look at the Mountain Area should check it out.

Yes, Lovely.......2002-04-23

Watching this movie is a lot like, in some quiet way, railing against mainstream cinema. This is not a popcorn-and-cola, big screen, ultra violent and...arousing potboiler. Atmosphere is something that that Tomb Raider dreck couldn't manage, unless it's some sordid, purely libidinous atmosphere.

This movie is brilliant, for several reasons. There are few leading men with the sort of silent charisma of Henry Thomas, who plays the surrogate father of the baby he finds in the woods, left there by the murderous father. The entire cast put in good performances, but Thomas is superb as the reticent outcast from his hometown's most wayward family. Remember that harangue about atmosphere? This thing's almost swollen with it. The beautiful backdrop of rural North Carolina is given a nervous system of haunted, ramshackle homes and wandering farm animals, as well as the usual small town, yammering old men, sitting in the general store swapping misogynistic jokes. This somber tone is enlivened, or let's say intensified, by a wonderous performance by David Straithairn as the deranged salesman hoping to recover his baby, whether or not it requires the murder of the child's twelve year old aunt.

Few of the movies that Hollywood producers spit up on the big screen are worth seeing. Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, and the Straight Story are notable exceptions. If this movie ever made it that far (remember, we have a tendency to forget truly adroit film making), then it deserves a space among the inspired flicks mentioned above. Now, if they could only infuse this sort of power and substance into such filler as The Nutty Professor...

Small film with great preportions.......2001-02-24

In A Good Baby we are taken to Western North Carolina, specifically Leighester, Asheville. This is the story about a baby that no one wanted that ended up changing the lives of every one who held it. Henery Thomas (All the Pretty Horses, ET) stars in this moving tale as the lonesome sole who finds and gets stuck with caring a baby. The mother of the baby a teen who messed up early is killed be her husband, David Strathairn (Simon Birch, The River Wild) who is consederable older than she was. Lena (the mother) her sister (played by Allison Glenn) is now looking for her and finds more than she bargens for. In the surcumstances of the acting I think they all portray mountain people failry well. I think first time star Allison Glenn gives a superb preformance along side Cara Seymour (You've Got Mail). Overall the film is very enjoyable and it tells a story that I think the directer felt needed to be told. A very enjoyable movie!

A Parent's Guide to Growing Pains - Good Study Habits

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Release Date: 2005-12-30

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It's no secret that children do not come with instructions, and there are times when parents need help with the answers to their children's toughest questions. A Parent's Guide to Growing Pains can give the parents the extra help they need in tackling those issues that are most difficult to talk about with their children. For individual use only; not for public performance.

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