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.

Event
Wild

Thu, 29 Jan - Sat, 28 Feb 2015
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

The witty words of Nick Hornby meet the intensity of Reese Witherspoon on a mission.

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Mr. Turner

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 - Mon, 26 Jan 2015
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Timothy Spall grunts and growls his way through this brilliant biopic.

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News
The Ten Best Movies Hardly Anyone Saw in 2014

They were box office flops in 2014. Give them some VOD love in 2015.

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News
Nightcrawler's Dan Gilroy on Turning Jake Gyllenhaal into a Coyote

And interns, the debut director thinks you'll relate.

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Event
Men, Women and Children

Thu, 27 Nov - Sat, 27 Dec 2014
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Sometimes a movie makes a statement. Sometimes it just thinks it does.

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Event
The Two Faces of January

Thu, 19 Jun - Tue, 1 Jul 2014
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

The directorial debut from the writer of Drive luxuriates in 1960s Greece.

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Event
Belle

Thu, 8 May - Sun, 8 Jun 2014
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Inspired by a painting, Belle filters 18th-century politics into a pretty portrait.

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