Peter Mullan

7 films on Best Blurays4 in 4K3 in HD

Peter Mullan (born 2 November 1959) is a Scottish stage, film and television actor and director, best known for playing supporting roles in feature films such as "Braveheart" and "Trainspotting", and for starring as the titular character Joe Kavanagh in "My Name Is Joe".

Biography from TMDB

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War Horse (2011)

Leading role · Director: Steven Spielberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney Blu-ray

3.4

Shallow Grave (1994)

Supporting role · Director: Danny Boyle

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion OOP Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Film4/Spirit Blu-ray has worse encoding, presented in 1.78:1 and is from an older master caps

Trainspotting (1996)

Supporting role · Director: Danny Boyle

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 2026 4K Blu-ray (UPC 715515334617)

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion 2026 4K Blu-ray (UPC 715515334617) > Criterion 2024 4K Blu-ray > Film4 4K Blu-ray

Criterion 2026 redid the encoding and none of the blocking issues any more, see disc info and nicolas' review
Criterion 2024 encode struggles with brighter areas of the image but still superior to Film4

Best Audio:

5.1: Universal EU Blu-ray - Criterion and Lionsgate are missing LFE, otherwise the same
Stereo: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Film4 4K Blu-ray is on a BD-66, both Criterion releases are on BD-100 discs.

Criterion 2024 release bitrate: 94.67 mbps

Criterion 2026 release bitrate: 93.66 mbps

Film4 bitrate: 62.00 mbps