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Film Review: SUMMER CAMP (2015)

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  SUMMER CAMP (2015) Spain/Mexico 1hr 21mins Director: Alberto Marini "It didn't have rabies ok? I don't know what it was but it was not rabies."- Will "I was bitten by an infected dog...and Christy. So it's not transmitted by blood or saliva." - Will Four American counsellors go to an English speaking summer camp in Spain to spend the holidays teaching kids. They get there before the children arrive to set up as the place still needs some work doing plus the water well on site does not seem to be running at all. Whilst waiting for the water to be fixed the group do a bit of a team building exercise in the woods. Antonio (Andres Velencoso), Will (Diego Boneta), Michelle (Maiara Walsh) and Christy (Jocelin Donahue) try a trust exercise in the woods which didn't quite go to plan as Christy and Michelle don't exactly gel. Plus they discover a family of gypsies have made camp in the woods nearby. On return from their disastrous exercise they find ou

Film Review: CARGO (2017)

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  CARGO (2017) Australia 1hr 45mins Directors: Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke "They're poisoning the land you know... we all get sick." - Cleverman "We can't set foot on shore unless it's our last and only option." - Andy "You're the first people I've seen. The first people who are still people." - Lorraine Australia is in the midst of a viral pandemic. Andy (Martin Freeman), his wife Kay (Susie Porter) and their infant daughter Rosie have managed to escape the "virals" by sailing down the river in an old house boat. It is only when Kay gets bitten on an excursion to an abandoned yacht to get supplies that Andy has to bring his family back onto land to get Kay to the hospital. After a series of unfortunate events the trip ends up becoming a frantic search for a safe place for Rosie as both parents are infected. Andy, knowing he only has 48 hours after infection before he turns, wanders the bush with Rosie on his back trying to