Bruce A. Young

5 films on Best Blurays4 in 4K1 in HD

Bruce A. Young (born April 22, 1956) is an American television and film actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Capt. Simon Banks in the UPN sci-fi police drama The Sentinel. He also played mercenary M.B. Nash in Jurassic Park III. In addition, he played the character of Moselle, a pool player who loses to Vince (played by Tom Cruise), in The Color of Money. His other film and television credits include Basic Instinct, Into Temptation, E/R, Highlander: The Series, Quantum Leap, NYPD Blue, Undisputed, Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Risky Business, Grey's Anatomy and Prison Break. Another notable role Young played was a self-defense instructor in the movie "Enough". Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce A. Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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4 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Basic Instinct (1992)

Supporting role · Director: Paul Verhoeven

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Lionsgate and StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray share the same video master: both have considerable improvement over the old awful Blu-ray but marred by teal grading and DNR. Lionsgate is additionally better compressed than StudioCanal.

Audio Notes:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray has the original theatrical 2.0 track, sourced from LaserDisc (absent on StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray), but the 5.1 track has issues which are not present on their new Blu-ray (LFE channel is missing, and instead it's the back left surround duplicated)

3.6

Jurassic Park III (2001)

Supporting role · Director: Joe Johnston

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Trilogy Steelbook 2025

Video Notes:

Universal 4K Trilogy Steelbook 2025 but there's a glitch not present on the old 4K

2.9

Risky Business (1983)

Small role · Director: Paul Brickman

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

3.4

Thief (1981)

Small role · Director: Michael Mann

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · thedigitalbits.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray is encoded by FiM and is better than Criterion, see caps https://slow.pics/c/Z2RRQAAT

Criterion 4K Blu-ray vs Blu-ray: caps colors are more different and nuanced than anticipated even in the SDR-converted caps and the usual gain in highlight detail is also apparent. Encode looks excellent except for the brightest areas as usual.

Best Audio:

5.1/5.0 mix (essentially a 4-track mix in 5.1 and 5.0 containers respectively)-Arrow/Criterion 4K Blu-ray. Only imperceptible differences in bit-depth: 20 vs 24.

2.0 mix- Arrow 4K Blu-ray (original stereo)

Additional Info:

Arrow and Criterion 4K Blu-rays have differing extras

Criterion has FEL Dolby Vision, Arrow has MEL

Arrow Limited Edition includes the Theatrical Cut Blu-ray from an older HD master, most likely from a 2K scan of an interpositive.

1 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Enough (2002)

Small role · Director: Michael Apted

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Starz is Streaming in HD with OAR

Or Sony Special Edition DVD

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