"Actor: Archie"

• Putney Swope (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (01/08/2022) from £15.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Product Features Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, Shaft) is the only Black executive at a stuffy Madison Avenue advertising agency. When the chairman dies unexpectedly, Putney is elected the new boss because those voting never thought anyone else would to do the same. Putney proceeds to kick out the white majority, replacing them with young, revolutionary types, and renames the agency Truth and Soul. A bracing satire, taking well-aimed pot-shots at capitalism, power and racism in America, Robert Downey's Putney Swope is a key entry in counterculture cinema, and a landmark of independent filmmaking, and after more than a half a century is still very, very funny. Product Features 4K restoration by the Academy Film Archive and the Film Foundation Original mono audio Audio commentary with writer-director Robert Downey (2001) Audio commentary with film critic and historian Sergio Mims (2019) Interview with Robert Downey (2001) Audio interview with cinematographer Gerald Cotts (2019) Film Forum Q&A with Robert Downey (2016): the writer and director in conversation with Bruce Goldstein at the Film Forum, New York Original theatrical trailer Dan Ireland trailer commentary (2014): short critical appreciation Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet featuring a new essay by Christina Newland, an archival article on the film, archival comments from Robert Downey, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and full film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK All extras subject to change

• Blood Surf | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An MTV-style film crew plan to shoot an expose on bloodsurfing - the latest craze in extreme sports where surfers throw live bait into the water to attract sharks just to see if they can out-surf them. Their search for the perfect location leads them to the shark-infested waters of Lilo Cay. But they are unaware of the true danger that lurks there; a terrifying giant saltwater crocodile with an insatiable thirst for blood. Survival has just become an extreme sport!

• White Teeth | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the best-selling and multi-award-winning novel by Zadie Smith White Teeth is superbly adapted to the screen in this outstanding drama which features a compulsively watchable cast including Robert Bathurst Phil Davis Geraldine James James McAvoy Om Puri and more. Set in the far from glamorous Willesden Green London from the 1970s to the 1990s White Teeth finds Archie Jones interracially married to the post-Jehovah's Witness Clara meeting up with an old colleague Samad Iqbal who with his family has just arrived in England. The secrets they share from the past and the secrets they will share in the future are tossed and tumbled in a rich stew that bubbles with racial and sexual tension new-found freedoms old school politics genetic science animal liberation and the end of the world as we know it. It all adds up to a feast to be relished from start to finish.

• AKA Cassius Clay | DVD | (18/05/2002) from £6.22   |  Saving you £9.77 (157.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Made in 1970, just as he was reaching the end of a three-year exile from boxing, AKA Cassius Clay is a documentary about Muhammad Ali's life and career. Produced by Jim Jacobs and Bill Cayton--who would go on to manage Mike Tyson--it includes reams of Jacobs' vast collection of fight footage, some of it familiar, some quite rare, such as flickery images of his earliest bouts. The film intersperses an account of Ali's career with good natured, if combative, sections to camera featuring Ali and future Tyson trainer Cus D'Amato, who plays devil's advocate, arguing with the ex-champ that he would never have beaten Joe Louis in his heyday, or (more dubiously) his own protégé Floyd Patterson. Watching footage of his 1967 bout against Cleveland Williams here, it's hard to believe any champion before or since could have beaten Ali at his height. Ali's familiar story is competently related here (though narrator Richard Kiley has the mildly disconcerting air of a Bond villain): his 1960 Olympic triumph; his defeat of Sonny Liston who was expected to annihilate the young 22-year-old blowhard in 1964; his conversion to the Nation of Islam; and the plainly vindictive decision on the part of the authorities to revise his draft status and call him up for service in Vietnam. Ali refused and faced the possibility of a five-year jail sentence as well as being stripped of his title. The principle pleasure of AKA Cassius Clay is watching Ali in full verbal flow. His maniacal teasing of Liston was a psychological knockout blow. "The man's too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty, like me!" On the DVD: extras comprise scene selections and the original trailer. The reproduction is visually adequate, with the sepia tones of the fight footage holding up well; but the dubbing in places is poor. --David Stubbs

• Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service - Series 2, Volume 1 | DVD | (20/07/2015) from £10.15   |  Saving you £-4.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Postman Pat Special Delivery Service features 8 new episodes including Postman Pat and Cowboy Colin Postman Pat and Big Bob Bell and Postman Pat and the Runaway Bees.

• Wilby Conspiracy | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the fight for freedom you have to break the rules. When anti-apartheid activist Shack Twala (Poitier) is freed from prison he quickly runs into trouble with the police. British engineer Keogh (Caine) helps Twala elude a sadistic government official (Nicol Williamson) but as both men now fugitives race 900 miles to cross the border to safety they are drawn into a conspiracy much bigger and deadlier than they realize. Poitier and Caine make a wonderful 'buddy' act in t

• Postman Pat - Read Along With Postman Pat | DVD | (09/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the most popular pre-school characters finally has his own DVD crammed full with innovative extras including; fun games match up shapes colour in pages web-site links and make up your own stories. This DVD takes DVD programming to another realm.

• Yasmin | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £14.11   |  Saving you £4.87 (43.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Yasmin (Archie Panjabi) is a spirited woman whose life in the North of England has become a precarious balancing act as she attempts both to please her traditional Pakistani family and enjoy the freedoms of Western life. Having rebelled against her family as a teenager Yasmin yields to the demands of her widowed father and agrees to marry a cousin 'from home'. The omens are not good when the goat-herder from Pakistani village meets the vivacious Westernised Yasmin. After the shocki

• Mary-Kate And Ashley Collection - Vol. 2 - Round The World | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £13.48   |  Saving you £0.51 (3.78%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Winning London:Mary-Kate and Ashley get the royal treatment taking on the world in this exciting British adventure. They jet to London to represent their high school at an international competition of Model United Nations and have the time of their lives as they enjoy the thrill of competition and take in the sights of London by day and by night. Mary-Kate and Ashley are out of town visiting the landmarks wearing the hippest fashions hanging out with the cutest guys and danc

• Phantom Of The Paradise | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Phantom Of The Paradise boasts director Brian De Palma's trademark visual inventiveness and is an hilarious send-up of the glam rock era. Paul Williams wrote the acclaimed rock and roll score for this musical horror classic and stars as an evil record tycoon haunted and taunted by a disfigured composer he once wronged.

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Collection | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £36.43   |  Saving you £-6.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Master detective Sherlock Holmes battles against an assortment of criminals and solves crimes in London aided by his assistant Dr Watson and the bumbling Inspector Lestrade.

• Ivor the Invisible | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £5.71   |  Saving you £4.28 (74.96%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One Saturday morning little John wakes up to find an invisible something sitting on the end of his bed. The something seems to be gigantic but John can't work out just how big it is. He tries to measure it but the invisible giant won't let him. When John asks this strange new friend his name the letters IVO appear on his mirror so John decides to call him Ivor. The invisible giant plays tricks on John's mum and dad and gets up to lots of mischief especially when John takes Ivor to the park and school!

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Vol. 4 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A fourth volume of adventures with those heroes in a half-shell! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Shredder Strikes (Part One) 2. The Shredder Strikes (Part Two) 3. The Unconvincing Turtle Titan

• Code 46 | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £9.68   |  Saving you £6.31 (65.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton star as a pair of doomed lovers in a strictly controlled society in the near future.

• Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service: A Brand New Mission | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Special Edition DVD includes a Postman Pat figurine inside the DVD. Everyone's favourite animated postie returns in six adventures. This time out Pat's landed a new job as head of the 'Special Delivery Service' which means he's got to make sure the mail gets through - no matter what it takes. Episodes Comprise: Crazy Robots A Tepee Fruit Bats A Wind Machine Charlie's Telescope A Runaway Cow Special Features: Trailers for other Children's titles available to buy.

• The Face Of Fu Manchu | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.

• Sherlock Holmes - 4 Classic Episodes - Vol. 1 - The Case Of The Night Train Riddle / Case Of Lady Beryl | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £3.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (42.98%)   |  RRP £4.99

  From 1954-1955 39 TV films were made starring Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as Dr. Watson. This DVD contains 4 of these TV films: The Case of the Night Train Riddle The Case of Lady Beryl The Mother Hubbart Case The Case of the Gravestone Inscription.

• Cannonball | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Another coast to coast race adventure where anyone driving anywhere near fifty-five miles an hour most certainly will not win...

• The Infidel | DVD | (29/09/2014) from £9.21   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Meet MAHMUD NASIR (Omid Djalili), loving husband, doting father and something of a "relaxed" Muslim.

• East Is East / Monsoon Wedding | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  East Is East (Dir. Damien O'Donnell 1999): English Dolby Digital 5.1 / Widescreen 1.78:1 Anamorphic / English subtitles for the hard of hearing We meet George Khan who is a proud Pakistani and a chip shop owner. He has seven children and believes that he is raising them to be respectable Pakistanis - but the kids have other ideas... Monsoon Wedding (Dir. Mira Nair 2001): English/Hindi Dolby Digital (5.1) / Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic As the romantic monsoon rains loom the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. 'Monsoon Wedding' traces five intersecting stories each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class continent and morality. The film celebrates a contemporary India never before seen on screen. The family's hopes anxieties and long-guarded secrets emerge amid frantic wedding preparations and are juxtaposed with arresting montages of real-life Delhi. The relentless summer heat mirrors the story's building intensity as the city anticipates the cooling torrent of the monsoons. And when the rain comes the cathartic downpour brings romance revelation and liberation.