Sarah Ward

Sarah Ward is Concrete Playground's Editor — and also Film and TV Editor, Film and TV Critic, Arts and Entertainment Editor, and Brisbane Editor. If it's on a screen big or small, happening in Brisbane and southeast Queensland, or news of national and international interest — particularly arts and entertainment — then Sarah is across it.

Sarah has also been a film critic for ABC radio for over a decade. Covering all things cinema and television, Sarah has written for Screen International since 2015, and contributed to SBS, ACMI, AACTA, Birth.Movies.Death, Flicks, Senses of Cinema, ScreenHub, ArtsHub, Junkee, FilmInk, Lumina, Metro Magazine, Screen Education and more. Sarah's background includes managing, writing for, mentoring at, being on judging panels at and hosting Q&As at Australian film festivals, such as the Brisbane International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Queensland Film Festival, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival and Gold Coast Film Festival.

Favourite cinema in Brisbane: Angelika Film Centre, which is a glorious new place to see a movie.

Favourite cinema in Sydney: Golden Age Cinema & Bar, the one cinema everyone needs to go to in Sydney if they only go to one cinema.

Favourite cinema in Melbourne: The Astor Theatre, and not just because of its history with cinema cats.

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Qantas Has Been Named the World's Safest Airline for 2020

The Aussie carrier has topped the list seven years in a row.

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The First Trailer for 'A Quiet Place Part II' Delivers More Silence, Monsters and Kick-Ass Emily Blunt

The sequel to the 2018 horror hit also features Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou.

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Ten Films You Need to See in 2020

Get ready for the long-awaited 'Bill & Ted Face the Music' to an 'Inception'-like flick and Sofia Coppola's new film starring Bill Murray.

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Cats

This nightmarish, nonsensical musical is a catastrophe — even with its all-star cast.

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Australia Is Now Home to the Southern Hemisphere's First Museum of Underwater Art

The first two artworks have just been installed off Townsville, with four locations planned across the Great Barrier Reef.

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'The Woman in the Window' Is the Next Twisty Page-Turner to Get the Big-Screen Treatment

Based on the psychological mystery novel of the same name, it stars Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman and Anthony Mackie.

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The World's First Fully Electric Commercial Aircraft Has Completed Its First Test Flight

The six-passenger seaplane took off from Vancouver.

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Sweden's Ice Hotel Has Revealed Its Latest Batch of Frosty and Imaginative Artist-Created Rooms

The hotel's 30th annual incarnation features a golden room, an icy kaleidoscope and a frosty depiction of Santorini.

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The Ten Best Films of 2019

This year we reviewed close to 150 films — and this devious South Korean masterpiece and hard-to-watch Australian thriller are among the absolute best.

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The Mind-Bending Trailer for Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' Is Here with Big 'Inception' Vibes

It stars 'BlacKkKlansman' breakout John David Washington, as well as Robert Pattinson, Michael Caine and Aussie actor Elizabeth Debicki.

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The Ten Best New TV Shows of 2019

From melancholy animation and offbeat sketch comedies to a grim drama based on a real-life tragedy.

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This New 'Twin Peaks' Virtual Reality Game Will Immerse You in a Place Both Wonderful and Strange

Wander through the world created by David Lynch and Mark Frost — not only hanging out in the show's famous settings, but solving escape room-style puzzles.

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The Anarchic Fourth Season of 'Rick and Morty' Is Finally Bringing Its Interdimensional Chaos Down Under

And it features guest voice work by Taika Waititi, Sam Neill, Matthew Broderick and Elon Musk.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-Winning Musical 'In the Heights' Is Finally Hitting the Big Screen

And the lively and colourful first trailer has just dropped.

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The Ten Best Movies Hardly Anyone Saw in 2019

With this year's big blockbusters hogging all the hype, you might have missed this electrifying Swedish horror-fantasy film and the unbelievable true tale of an Australian journo and artist. Now's the time to catch up.

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The Spooky 'Stranger Things'-Esque First Trailer for 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' Is Here

This time, it swaps New York for Oklahoma and grown men and women for children — and it stars Paul Rudd.

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'Wonder Woman' Is Back in the Retro First Trailer for the DC Hit's 80s-Set Sequel

'Wonder Woman 1984' hits cinemas in mid-2020.

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The Addams Family

Thu, 5 Dec - Wed, 25 Dec 2019
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

This animated all-ages film trades in generic storylines and bad jokes that don't do its weird and wonderful family any justice.

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The Creepy Full Trailer for HBO's New Stephen King-Penned Murder Mystery 'The Outsider' Is Here

Focusing on "an insidious supernatural force", the ten-part mini-series stars Jason Bateman and Aussie actor Ben Mendelsohn.

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Disney Has Dropped the Action-Packed Full Trailer for Its Live-Action Version of 'Mulan'

The remake will bring its sword-swinging, arrow-flinging antics to cinemas next year.

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