"Actor: Hernandez"

• Horatio Hernandez - Horacio Hernandez - Live At The Modern Drummer Festival | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £22.65   |  Saving you £-5.66 (-33.30%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Horacio Hernandez is a Grammy Award winner and one of the most talented drummers in the world today. Whether playing with jazz legends like McCoy Tyner or Michel Camilo rock stars like Carlos Santana or Steve Winwood or as member of renowned Latin ensembles like Tito Puente's Tropi-Jazz All Stars El Negro has earned a strong reputation as one of the most powerful and versatile players in the current musical scene. His musical home base is founded on the rhythms of his native Cuba though he is comfortable in all styles. Horacio performs a set of incredible music that opens with a burning drums and percussion duet and incorporates elements of jazz and Afro-Cuban music in a unique and exciting way Early in 1997 Hernandez traveled to Orvieto Italy to perform at the Umbria Jazz Festival and record with the band Crisoul. Led by trumpeter Roy Hargrove this all-star lineup combined the energies of Hargrove Hernandez Gary Bartz Frank Lacey David Sanchez Changuito Jon Benitez Anga Diaz Russell Malone and Chucho Valdes. Their debut record entitled Habana earned Crisoul a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Record in theLatin Jazz category. During the same period Hernandez recorded the Michel Camilo's release Thru My Eyes with Jon Patitucci and Anthony Jackson. On this record El Negro's true essence is captured on the track A Night in Tunisia. Also during this time Hernandez appeared with McCoy Tyner and his band in San Francisco and recorded and toured with Santana for their 1997 world tour. In 1998 Hernandez set his sights on performing with Latin Crossing a stellar gathering of artists that featured Steve Winwood Arturo Sandoval and Tito Puente. Latin Crossing toured all of the major jazz festivals throughout Europe that summer. Hernandez then went on tour with the John Patitucci Band. In 1998 and 1999 Hernandez found himself recording with an eclectic group of artists including: Santana Gabriella Anders John Patitucci Sergio George Juan Carlos Formell Joanne Brackeen Giovanni Hidalgo and others. Horacio is a member of the faculties of Drummer's Collective and the New School in New York and regularly conducts clinics and workshops at the prestigious Berklee School of Music as well as for Pearl drums and Ziidjian cymbals. He has been a participant in several NAMM shows and was a featured drummer at the Percussive Arts Society's International Convention in 1996. Early in 1998 Hernandez was voted first runner-up as the 1997 Drummer of the Year in Drum magazine''s annual readers poll.

• Beloved | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £14.92   |  Saving you £0.07 (0.47%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This important (New York Times) classic from the director of Luc''-a is set in 1914 Havana. Privileged but unhappily married Amada falls in love with her cousin Marcial a young man with revolutionary designs. Will she follow her passion and escape her unfaithful husband?

• Hostel/The Hitcher | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hostel: Paxton and Josh two college friends are lured by a fellow traveler to what's described as a nirvana for American backpackers - a particular hostel in an out-of-the-way Slovakian town stocked with Eastern European women as desperate as they are gorgeous. The two friends arrive and soon easily pair off with exotic beauties Natalya and Svetlana. In fact too easily... Initially distracted by the good time they're having the two Americans quickly find themselves trapped in an increasingly sinister situation that they will discover is as wide and as deep as the darkest sickest recess of human nature itself - if they survive. The Hitcher: The open highway becomes a terrifying battleground of blood metal fear and murder when a young couple Grace and Jim (Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton) hit the road and encounter the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder (Sean Bean) during a violent storm. The initial encounters with Ryder escalate rapidly as he transforms into a deadly racing psychopath and the stakes are raised further when he frames Grace and Jim for a horrific slaying that makes them fugitives from the law. As the carnage mounts and the action pushes you to the edge of your seat Grace and Jim must fight for their lives and face their fears head-on.

• Quarantine | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.

• Threads | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Grindy Malone desperately wants in on the New York fashion scene and lands a job at Manhattan designer Poncho Ramirez just as the famous fashion house's fortunes are dipping. Ronnie Grossman is Poncho Ramirez CEO and the man responsible for ensuring the brands continued success during these difficult times. Ira Gold is the founder of Romeo Jeans - a sleazy operator who is looking to beef up his sales lines and takes direct aim at the struggling Poncho Ramirez brand. Feeling like he has no other choice Ronnie strikes a pact with the devil Ira to handle the hot new line of designer jeans that Poncho has developed thanks to new wonder girl Grindy. Things take off beyond their wildest dreams and now the only goal on everyone's mind is to cash out but suppliers can't meet demand and suddenly everyone is watching their potential fortunes evaporate. Desperate to save their dream Grindy and Ira decide on the risky strategy of patching the Poncho Ramirez logo onto no-name jeans.

• Cop And A Half | DVD | (04/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One kid's fantasy. One cop's nightmare! Devon Butler is an eight-year old who dreams of being a cop. He watches police TV shows knows police procedures and plays cops and robbers with his friend Ray. One day while snooping around in a warehouse he witnesses a murder. He goes to the police who want the information but won't get it until they make Devon a cop. The police then team him with veteran cop (and child hater) Nick McKenna (Burt Reynolds) and the two team up in comic series of events to find the killer.

• Battle In Heaven | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Battle In Heaven is the controversial hit from Cannes by Carlos Reygadas the director of Jap''n. Carlos Reygadas delivers a poignant insight into the actions and thoughts of a kidnapper in Mexico. Marcus tries to live with the consequences of his actions as well as the infatuation with his employer's daughter Battle In Heaven is sexually explicit but directed with quiet realism using non-professional actors; Anapola Mushkadiz in particular is a sensual revelation. Nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes it narrowly lost out to L'Enfant.

• Drummers Collective - 25th Anniversary Celebration And Bass Day 2002 | DVD | (27/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £42.99

• Ladder 49/The Guardian | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ladder 49: (Dir. Jay Russell) (2004): What does it take for a man to run into a burning building when everyone else is running out? Why do firemen leave their families each morning to risk their lives for strangers? The film chronicles Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) as he makes the transition from inexperienced rookie to seasoned veteran. As he struggles to cope with a risky demanding job that often shortchanges his wife and kids he relies on the support of his mentor and chief Mike Kennedy (John Travolta) and his second family - the brotherly bond between the men of the firehouse. But when Jack becomes trapped in the worst blaze of his career his life and the things he holds important - family dignity courage - come into focus. As his fellow firemen of Ladder 49 do all they can to rescue him Jack's life hangs in the balance. Guardian: (Dir. Andrew Davis) (2006): In an effort to find his place in life a troubled young man enlists in the Coast Guard where he's taken in by a renowned rescue swimmer who's hardened by the loss of his team from an accident years back. Unfortunately for the pair the past is about to re-incarnate itself...

• Dawn Of The Living Dead | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £6.77   |  Saving you £9.22 (57.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Renee Summers has just been released from a mental institution when her fiancee and psychiatrist Jeffrey Morgan buys her a secluded cabin to rest before she faces her friends and family. Renee soon befriends her only neighbour Michael Richards who is not all that he seems to be. She also uncovers a deadly secret! The former tenants of the cabin a mayan family were butchered to death and dumped in an unmarked grave.

• The Blu-ray Horror Collection (5 titles - Hostel/Hostel 2/Vacancy/Dracula/The Covenant) | Blu Ray | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Hostel The hallowed tradition of the post-college European backpacking trip turns into an unimaginable nightmare for two unsuspecting American 20-somethings in Eli Roth's (Cabin Fever) sensational second outing. Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson) have embarked upon a hedonistic tour of the continent, and somewhere along the way pick up travelling companion Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson). In Amsterdam the trio partakes of the pastimes most dear to frat boys everywhere: weed, prostitutes, and nightclubs. But when a fellow traveller tells these thrill-seekers about the decadent scene that awaits them in Bratislava, they find themselves unable to resist its lures. Enticed by the promise of a hostel full of beautiful girls who love Americans, they set out for the remote areas of Eastern Europe. There, the sex farce to which the film's first half is devoted slowly turns ominous, as the boys hook up immediately with the gorgeous Natalya (Barbara Nedeljakova) and Svetlana (Jana Kaderabkova), whose eagerness masks more sinister intentions. Soon, the disagreeable backpackers find themselves on the other side of the flesh trade, sold by the girls into an exclusive human trafficking operation that gives its customers the opportunity to torture and kill a helpless victim. Much of what follows consists of the squirm-inducing surgical horrors that characterise precursors such as Saw, with the implications regarding the capitalist system and the human soul becoming ever darker. Produced by Quentin Tarantino, the film amps up the gore factor as much as it can get away with, and, in the tradition of the best horror films, offers a satirical socially conscious commentary. Hostel Part II The inevitable sequel to one of the decade's most intriguing and well-made horror films, Hostel Part II, as the title implies, picks up pretty much where the last film left off. And it doesn't take too long for the sequel to find the same groove that earned its predecessor so much attention. The setting is once again an underground club, where people bid for the right to torture residents at the hostel of the title. Hostel Part II, however, lets us see events from the other perspective too, as we meet the wealthy businessmen who are availing themselves of the club's services. It's a logical dynamic for the movie, and it does bring a fresh perspective to a film that does eventually settle down to a cavalcade of gore and shock. As a director, Eli Roth has clearly improved since last time around, even if this time he too often succumbs to the temptation to show rather than imply, and Hostel Part II as a result feels a little less fresh and more uncomfortable than its predecessor. Yet it's most certainly an unsettling piece of cinema, and one likely to find favour with Roth's increasing fanbase. A word of warning, though: Hostel Part II isn't shy about pulling its punches, and it very much justifies its 18 certificate. It's also a cut above many of its modern day contemporaries in the genre, even though it fails to measure up to part one. --Jon Foster Vacancy A confined setting is a useful tool for thriller-makers, and Vacancy is definitely boxed in: a run-down motel way, way off the Interstate, the kind of place where unsuspecting movie characters go to get stabbed to death in the shower. If Vacancy doesn't quite live up to its Hitchcockian forebears, at least it provides 80 minutes of well-designed mayhem. You know somebody's paying attention just from the opening credits, a clever vortex with pounding music by Paul Haslinger. Then we meet unhappy couple Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale, driving along in the dark and forced to stay at the Pinewood Motel after a car breakdown. There's a night man (Frank Whaley, World Trade Center) in the tradition of Dennis Weaver's Touch of Evil gargoyle, but the real mess of trouble is waiting in room number four. Director Nimrod Antal, who scored a stylish international hit with the Hungarian thriller Kontroll, squeezes maximum juice out of the Route 66 atmosphere of the motel, although the movie doesn't get under your skin the way Kontroll did. Wilson and Beckinsale are a little too marquee-namish for this kind of heavy-breathing work, and the script doesn't give them much to play with. But hey, it's not that kind of movie. Where it really belongs is on the top half of a drive-in double bill, or maybe as a nightmare-scenario TV movie from the Seventies. Either way, it works. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com Bram Stoker's Dracula Francis Ford Coppola's take on the Dracula myth is visually stunning and overflows with passionate seduction and Gothic romance. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coppola draws from the original source of the Dracula story to create a modern masterpiece. Gary Oldman's metamorphosis as Dracula, who grows from old to young, from man to beast, is breathtaking. Winona Ryder brings as much intensity to the character of the beautiful young woman who becomes the object of Dracula's devastating desire. Anthony Hopkins co-stars as the famed doctor who dares to believe in Dracula and then dares to confront him. Opulent and irresistible, Bram Stoker's Dracula is an unforgettable film. The Covenant Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Deep Blue Sea) directs this supernatural thriller about descendants of powerful New England families. The sons of Ipswich are legendary at Spenser Academy, the local boarding school. Handsome and popular, these four teenage friends can trace their roots to the founding families of the Ipswich Colony, settled in the late 1600s. For years these Massachusetts families have harboured the secret that they possess supernatural powers. Their descendants--Caleb (Steven Strait), Reid (Toby Hemingway), Tyler (Chace Crawford), and Pogue (Taylor Kitsch)--have inherited magical powers that first manifested themselves when the boys turned 13 years old. In a nutshell, they can do anything. As they approach their 18th birthdays, they are preparing to 'ascend', which means their powers will grow stronger. The downside? The magic is seductive and addictive, and causes premature aging with each use. Ringleader Caleb tries to keep his friends from using magic recklessly, but as the school year begins, strange events and a strong gut instinct convince Caleb that someone is using very powerful magic. Meanwhile, Caleb is exploring his newfound affection for transfer student Sarah (Laura Ramsey). To Caleb''s dismay, Sarah becomes a pawn in a power struggle with a descendant of the fifth founding family of Ipswich, a line thought to be lost during Salem''s witch trials. Is Caleb strong enough to maintain his power and keep his family and friends safe, or will he yield to this new threat and sacrifice himself? The film draws interesting parallels between the luring, addictive power of magic and the addictions real teenagers face. The sufficiently creepy setting echoes New England and sets the stage for supernatural phenomena. The Covenant also stars Sebastian Stan as Chase Collins, a wealthy newcomer to Spenser, and Jessica Lucas as Kate, Sarah's roommate and Pogue's girlfriend.

• Downrange | DVD | (10/09/2018) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For six college students carpooling cross-country, a seemingly mundane tyre blow-out is the beginning of a grueling fight for survival. Finding themselves under siege by a mysterious, merciless sniper, an agonising game of cat-and-mouse ensues - the sniper does not approach to finish them off, he simply waits, silent, patient, drawing them into a suspenseful battle of wits. By nightfall what was once an unassuming stretch of country road has become a smoking battlefield of wrecked cars, strewn corpses hide-and-seek shootouts and everyone-for-themselves desperation.