Brad Cook

Columnist at New Hampshire Business Review

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Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

4 days ago | flickeringmyth.com | Brad Cook

Kingdom of Heaven, 2005. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas, and Liam Neeson. SYNOPSIS:If you’re a fan of Ridley Scott’s religious epic Kingdom of Heaven, then you probably know it’s out on 4K Ultra HD and digital. Not only does it sport a brand-new 4K restoration, but it also ports over the huge mountain of bonus features that were included with previous releases.
NH Business Review

1 week ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

The First Amendment in 1970, and now On the weekend of June 6-8, the University of New Hampshire held its Alumni Reunion Weekend, as it does each year. 2025 marked the 50th reunion of the Class of 1975, the 55th of the Class of 1970, and the 60th of the Class of 1965.
Jaws 50th Anniversary Edition

1 week ago | flickeringmyth.com | Brad Cook

Jaws, 1975. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton. SYNOPSIS:Jaws gets its eighty billionth home video release this week, but I’m happy because I have always loved, and will always love, that film, despite the disinterest in it shown by my family.
NH Business Review

2 weeks ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

In 1882, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company conveyed a parcel of its land at 65 Sagamore St. in Manchester to a Lutheran congregation of Swedish immigrants so they could build a church, then called Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Gethsemane Society. The workers labored by day in the mills, and at night and on weekends built the church. Services were conducted in Swedish until about 1950, when the church, now called Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church, started conducting them in English.
The Alto Knights (2025)

4 weeks ago | flickeringmyth.com | Brad Cook

The Alto Knights, 2025. Directed by Barry Levinson. Starring Robert De Niro, Debra Messing, Cosmo Jarvis, Kathrine Narducci, and Michael Rispoli. SYNOPSIS:Warner Bros. has issued the mob swan song story The Alto Knights on Blu-ray. You only get a code for a digital copy, with no extras found on the disc and just a one-minute micro-featurette included with the digital copy, but that’s not a surprise given how poorly this film did at the box office.
Honoring Swope, Sutter and Truncellito

1 month ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

During a May 6 panel discussion at the Currier Museum of Art hosted by New Hampshire Civics, retired Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid illustrated civics in action by reading from the obituary of John Swope, which had run in the paper that day. Swope, and two other New Hampshire citizens who have died in the last month, exemplified what NH Civics aims to instill in today’s youth by advocating for civics education in public schools.
The Andromeda Strain (1971)

1 month ago | flickeringmyth.com | Brad Cook

The Andromeda Strain, 1971. Directed by Robert Wise. Starring Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, and George Mitchell. SYNOPSIS:The Andromeda Strain arrives on 4K Ultra HD courtesy of Arrow Video. This is the same disc as the Blu-ray Arrow issued in 2019, but the image quality is even better here, of course. Arrow Video has continued its 4K Ultra HD upgrades of minor classics with The Andromeda Strain, which was previously issued by the boutique label on Blu-ray in 2019.
Threatened cuts to the federal budget will affect us all

1 month ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

City Year, public radio and TV are at risk Proposals for the next federal budget appeared in the outline set forth in the recently passed budget reconciliation bill. In addition to those, the Trump administration is reported to be planning to submit some “recission” bills to Congress. These are bills that reverse promised spending. Finally, the President’s use of executive orders and the actions of Elon Musk’s budget-cutters have frozen or cut other programs.
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

1 month ago | flickeringmyth.com | Brad Cook

The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, and John Vernon. SYNOPSIS:Clint Eastwood’s 1976 classic The Outlaw Josey Wales makes its 4K Ultra HD debut. The film looks great, and you get a nice smattering of bonus features as well as a code for a digital copy.
NH Business Review

2 months ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

Self-inflicted wounds lead to budget and tax problems in NH and Washington Watching the budget process in Concord and Washington unfold — with tales of crises due to lack of resources and revenue, and the resultant need to cut services, eliminate departments and reduce benefit levels — leads to a number of observations. In Concord, where the biennial budget process has been playing itself out, Gov.