"Actor: Antonio Fargas"

• Shaft Trilogy | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The original and hippest version of Shaft cruised onto cinema screens in 1971. John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is an African-American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) seems fond of certain detective genre clichés (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft produced a couple of sequels, a follow-up television series, and a remake starring Samuel L. Jackson, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com Shaft's Big Score is the first sequel to the super-hip 1971 original. When a pal of detective John Shaft is murdered in a bombing, New York's coolest private eye finds himself caught in the middle of a power struggle between black and white gangsters over the numbers racket in Queens. Directed by Gordon Parks (who does a brief cameo as a croupier in an illegal casino) and written by Ernest Tidyman (both of whom made the original Shaft), this film lacks the pacing of its progenitor. Roundtree is at his best when he's questioning a woman he's just met about a suspect while at the same time beguiling her into the sack (ah, those lazy, crazy days of the sexual revolution). The finale--a shootout in a cemetery, followed by a car-boat-helicopter chase through Queens and up the Harlem River--is preposterously drawn-out: Shaft, impervious to machine-gun fire, winds up tripping, spraining his ankle, and limping while running from the chopper; two shots later, he's sprinting like a halfback. Look for late Muhammad Ali trainer Drew Bundini Brown as a wise-cracking mobster. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.comShaft in Africa, the second sequel to the original hit, foreshadows itself early on when Shaft, asked to go undercover in Africa to halt a modern-day slave trade, claims that he's not James Bond but strictly Sam Spade. Bond, however, is the operative model here, with John Shaft masquerading as an Ethiopian to infiltrate the slave business and bring it down. Yet everyone he encounters seems to know who he is and wants to kill him--but the string of dead bodies he leaves in his wake across two continents proves that no one is able to stop everyone's favourite hip private eye. Written by Stirling Silliphant, the film is long on action set pieces that are filmed with more energy than the previous movie, Shaft's Big Score. Given contemporary practices involving smugglers of illegal Chinese and Mexican immigrants, the plot isn't all that far-fetched. Roundtree, as usual, is the picture of unflappable cool--but don't get him mad. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Starsky and Hutch - Season 1 Vol. 1 | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Produced by the late Aaron Spelling (TV's Charlies Angels) Starsky & Hutch roared into small screens in 1975 to become one of the most popular iconic series of the decade. This was TV's coolest buddy cop show fuelled by full-throttle car chases offbeat humour colourful characters and a hip vibe. The hit series (1975-1979) followed streetwise undercover detectives Dave Starsky and Ken ""Hutch"" Hutchinson as they cruised around town in Starsky's red and white-striped Gran Torino battling thugs and hoodlums with the help of jive-talking informant Huggy Bear. Episodes comprise: 1. Snowstorm 2. Savage Sunday 3. Death Ride 4. Texas Longhorn

• Sucker Punch | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £10.50   |  Saving you £4.49 (30.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The story of a hustler looking to gain revenge on a top fight promoter 'Sucker Punch' sees lowlife loser Harley (Danny John Jules) form a fragile partnership with enigmatic fighter Buchinsky (Gordon Alexander) to topple fight baron Maitland (Ian Freeman) in this fast-paced action comedy. With gritty realistic fights throughout 'Sucker Punch' features one of the most brutal final fights in UK Cinema history in a film that superbly balances the action and comedy elements. Be the first to say you saw it coming.

• The Borrower | Blu Ray | (17/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Starsky And Hutch - Series 1 Vols 1-3 | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  All the episodes from the first season of the classic U.S. cop show starring David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser as immortal detective Starsky and Hutch. Episodes comprise: Savage Sunday Texas Longhorn Death Ride Snowstorm The Fix Death Notice Pariah Kill Huggy Bear The Bait Lady Blue ""Captain Dobey You're Dead!"" Terror on the Docks The Deadly Impostor Shootout The Hostages Losing Streak Silence The Omaha Tiger Jojo Running A Coffin for Starsky The Bounty Hunter.

• Horror Films (Box Set) | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This box set contains the following four titles: Pariah: Steve and Sam are attacked by Neo-Nazis. Steve decides to go undercover as a skinhead to learn more about them. With this accomplished he can kill them... The Stendhal Syndrome: On the trial of a serial rapist and killer a detective hides her own secret. She suffers from a mental condition which makes her retreat into frightening hallucinations.... The Stendhal Syndrome. The Class Of Nuke'em High: Meet the students of Tromaville High School as they transform into horrifying mutants due to their location near the nuclear power plant. Howling VI The Freaks: A mysterious drifter wanders into a desolate desert town in search of the man who put a curse on him to become a werewolf every full moon.

• Stealing Las Vegas | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  There's a dark side behind the bright lights of Las Vegas where desperate lives and busted dreams struggle in the shadows to survive. And when a sleazy casino owner (Eric Roberts of The Dark Knight and The Expendables) swipes $20 million from his employees' health insurance and pension funds ex-pro-baseball-player-turned-casino-electrician Nick (Ethan Landry) and his co-workers put together a daring plan to steal the money back. But in a lowdown town of underground cage fights smoky strip clubs and deadly double-crosses can the perfect heist ever go as planned? Antonio Fargas (Foxy Brown Starsky and Hutch) Anabella Casanova Eloy Méndez and Krissy Terry co-star in this suspense thriller with a twist from Executive Producer Roger Corman.

• The Last Line Of Defense 2 | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-12.01 (-150.30%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Decorated Lieutenant and Navy SEAL John Kennedy Brascoe is a broken man having been stripped of his position within the mighty US military machine. While operating undercover during a botched mission for the CIA his partner Cody has named him as a traitor and thief. Thrown out of the military and faced with the insurmountable medical fees for the care of his sick young son John is reunited with an ex-navy SEAL buddy Sparks (Michael Madsen). Together they embark on the mission of a lifetime: to penetrate the fortress home of a multi-billionaire.

• Horror Box Set | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Night Of The Living Dead (Fullscreen 4:3 / English - Dolby (1.0) Mono / Cert. 18) At a cemetery in the American south a flesh-eating zombie rises from the dead to claim the first victim of a nightmarish plague. Increasing in number the hideous cannibals gather outside a farmhouse where seven desperate mortals shelter from the gathering night and the hideous clawing of the undead outside. The Howling 6: The Freaks (Fullscreen 4:3 / English - Dolby (2.0) Stereo / Cert. 18) A mysterious drifter wanders into a desolate desert town in search of the man who put a curse on him that causes him to become a werewolf every full moon... Def By Temptation (Fullscreen 4:3 / English - Dolby (2.0) Stereo / Cert. 18) A female vampire is hell-bent on destroying a party of college students with her power of satanic seduction... The Legend Of The Mummy 2 (Fullscreen 4:3 / English - Dolby (2.0) Stereo / Cert.15 Six young archaeology students discover the remains of an ancient Aztec mummy and accidentally unleash the fury of an evil god...