"Director: Jean Pellerin"

• For Hire | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This 1997 thriller For Hire ponders the question of what terrible things a person might be persuaded to do, given the right circumstances and the right price. Rob Lowe plays Mitch, a Chicago cab driver trying to make it as an actor, married to the pregnant Faye. Among his clients are bestselling writer Lou Weber (Joe Mantegna), who befriends Mitch and confides in him that a drug dealer is trying to kill him. Over the next few days, Mitch begins to suffer severe stomach pains, collapsing in Weber's apartment after a fare and is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. With only a short time to live, he decides to take up Weber's offer to rub out his drug dealer stalker for $50,000, a nest egg for his family after he's gone. A not entirely unpredictable twist follows, hinted at by the Lucifer-like beard sported by Mantegna and the film alights only briefly to meditate on the potential for evil in all of us before resuming its journey along conventional, though certainly passable Hollywood thriller lines. An intriguing precept--it's just a slight shame that neither the players nor director's hearts seem really to be in this movie. On the DVD: Features a trailer. --David Stubbs

• Daybreak | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  In the late nineties the city of Los Angeles completed the most ambitious underground railway project in history. An engineering feat made all the more impressive given the fact that L.A. is one of the world's earthquake hot spots. The Metro Red Line train number 7 is unusually busy for a saturday night. As the train passes between Universal and Hollywood stations a massive earthquake strikes. The powerful jolt sends the train crashing into the collapsed tunnel. When the authorities refuse to send in a rescue team the survivors face a battle for their lives or face the prospect of a deep concrete grave.

• The Cruel Deep | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £6.55   |  Saving you £-3.56 (-119.10%)   |  RRP £2.99

  To safeguard a priceless national treasure the Greek government has requisitioned the luxury cruise liner Argo Thetis for use as an undercover cargo carrier. However the plan falls apart when the cruise ship is attacked by a submarine belonging to a fanatical billionaire art collector Elgin Bates. During the assault a fuel tank is ignited blasting a gaping hole in the ship's hull. Oxygen is now the most valuable commodity for the surviving passengers and crew trapped in an airtight compartment below decks. As the oxygen decreases the massive ship succumbs to the pull of the ocean dropping ninety feet down and crashing onto a ledge overhanging one of the deepest tracts in the Aegean Sea. Underwater under pressure they're fighting for their lives in the cruel deep.

• The Cruel Deep | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £6.88   |  Saving you £-0.89 (-14.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  To safeguard a priceless national treasure the Greek government has requisitioned the luxury cruise liner Argo Theti for use as an undercover cargo carrier.The plan falls apart when the cruise ship is attacked by a submarine belonging to a fanatical billionaire art collector Elgin Bates.During the assault a fuel tank is ignited blasting a gaping hole in the ship's hull.Oxygen is now the most valuable commodity for the surviving passengers and crew trapped in an airtight compartment below decks. As the oxygen decreases the massive ship succumbs to the pull of the ocean dropping ninety feet down and crashing onto a ledge overhanging one of the deepest tracts in the Aegean Sea.As the ship teeters over the gaping mouth of the abyss the pressure causes the hatches to blow. One after the other decks corridors and cabins are rapidly flooded.Underwater under pressure they're fighting for their lives in the cruel deep.

• Thriller Collection - Shootfighter / Playing God / For Hire | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Box set featuring 'Shootfighter' 'Playing God' and 'For Hire'.