3rd media review

Movie Review- Super Troopers
The film takes place in 2000 in the fictional town of Spurbury, Vermont, near the Canadian boarder. The plot centers on five Vermont State troopers who seem to have more of a knack for pranks than actual police work. The experienced troopers, Thorn, Mac, and Foster, spend most of their time devising new ways of messing with the heads of the people they pull over and hazing the new recruit, "Rabbit". They also find time to torment their easily infuriated radio dispatcher, Rodney Farva, who has been exiled from patrol work because he was involved in a fight with several students during a traffic stop of a schoolbus. The troopers have an ongoing rivalry with the Spurbury Police Department, Spurbury's local police. They repeatedly enter conflicts with them ("highway cops versus the local cops").  Their chances to keep their station rise when they uncover a potential drug smuggling ring. When they suspect a connection to a murder investigation by the local police, highway Captain O-Hagan tries to get local police chief Grady to cooperate, but fails to do so as Grady wants the highway station shut down so his station can have a bigger budget.
During this time, Foster secretly develops a relationship with the local police dispatcher Ursula, where together they find a stash of confiscated marijuana hidden in the local impound. Ursula suggests stealing the marijuana from the impound and show it to the governor during a banquet so they can convince her to keep their station open. However, Grady finds out about their plan and shows the marijuana to the governor himself during the banquet.Defeated, the defrocked troopers learn that it was Farva, not Ursula, who informed Grady in exchange for a position at the local station. Farva took the position out of feeling disrespected, but wants to make amends. They find out that the local police station actually runs protection for the drug smugglers. Together, along with Ursula, they dispatch the corrupt policemen and smugglers.
Three months later, Thorn and Rabbit are working as beer delivery men. They go to a house party run by a set of college kids they arrested for marijuana possession at the beginning of the movie. The college kids, who are underage, are at first panicked to see them, but become relieved when learning they got fired, and take the opportunity to pester them as payback for earlier treatment. Thorn and Rabbit take off their delivery clothes to reveal they are actually Spurbury police officers, having replaced their corrupt predecessors along with the others, and are now free to continue their shenanigans. I give the film 4 out of 5 stars.

Second Media Review

Movie Review on Casino
Brandon Costa

 Focusing on the Tangiers, a casino run by Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) but funded by the Mafia, we are immediately thrust into the action when Ace is blown-up in a car bombing.  The film embarks on an extended flashback of the rise and fall of Ace. Long before he'd ever dreamed of Vegas he rose to a certain sort of fame, back East, by being the best gambler around. Every one of his bets came off , making Ace popular with the local hoods when they fancied a flutter. To protect their interests he was provided with Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), his guardian angel and pocket sociopath. They were both lifelong friends.

 The Mafia and Ace had a terrific scam going, the Mafia would have a guy go in and take money from the room where all of the money would be counted and everyone who worked there would be in on it so no one would get "pinched". But Ace's wife Ginger was also seeing another man who was a pimp and a drug dealer. She would take money from Ace and give it to Lester Diamond (James Woods). So Ace and Ginger towards the middle of the movie had many fights. Ginger didn't know who to turn to so she talked to Nicky about her problems. Then Nickey started getting into drugs and she eventually got into an affair with him which was not good because the bosses back home didn't like it when guys from the same crew were messing around with each others wives.

Eventually the scam gets pinched and the bosses have to go to jail. Then they find out that Nickey was messing around with Ace's wife so they kill him. And everyone who was involved in the scam started ratting people out so the bosses got people to kill them. At the end Ace is in his car starts it and the his hood catches on fire, whoever wired his car to blow up did it wrong so he is one of the only ones to live and the story ends with him in San Diego betting on sports games.

4 out 5 stars.

First Media Review

First Blog

Hi I'm Brandon Costa. I live in North Wales, Pa (about 45 minutes from Philadelphia). I play baseball at FCC and live in a townhouse with three other baseball players. I am taking general studies and want to transfer to a four year school to pursue a career in Athletic Training. I enjoy playing baseball, hanging out with my friends, going to the beach, surfing, listening to music, the Phillies, watching movies, and my favorite t.v show of all time is Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory.