Author: John P. Harvey

[Review] Switzerland – Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre – Tuesday–Saturday 3–14 July
Review by John P Harvey Set in the Swiss Alps in 1995, Switzerland pits a self-exiled American novelist, Patricia Highsmith (a ...

[Film Review] The Bookshop
Review John P Harvey The Bookshop is a film very much about character and principle, and invokes that special sentiment ...

Blue World Order
Global devastation by a new bacterium; its cure via a broadcast digital virus with hidden costs; a father’s quest to ...

Breathe
It’s 1959. Newlyweds Robin and Diana Cavendish take a tea-brokering expedition to Kenya, where, with Diana expecting their child, Robin ...

One–Two–Three–Go! @ Scandinavian Film Festival, Palace Electric Cinema
Jeppe and Cecilie meet on Cecilie’s first day at her new school and are instantly attracted. When Cecilie’s unwillingness to risk ...

Little Wing @ Scandinavian Film Festival, Palace Electric Cinema
Selma Vilhunen’s debut feature film depicts twelve-year-old Varpu (Linnea Skog) as more emotionally mature than her mother, more capable of ...

Rosemari @ Scandinavian Film Festival, Palace Electric Cinema
Having lived with her foster parents for the past ten years and known that she was found as a newborn ...

The Man @ Scandinavian Film Festival, Palace Electric Cinema
Simon is a successful visual artist whose income from his large works supports his employment of an entire team that ...

Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival @ Palace Electric, Tue Jul 18–Wed Aug 2
As I write, the final few films of the Scandinavian Film Festival are enjoying additional screenings by popular demand. If ...

Clare Bowen, Timothy James Bowen @ Canberra Theatre Centre, Wednesday July 5
Timothy Bowen’s appearance on the stage on the dot of 7:30pm was low key. This unassuming young man, brother of Clare ...