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.

News
Nicolas Cage Will Teach You the History of Swear Words in Netflix's Next Must-See Series

And if the trailer is anything to go by, it's going to be hilarious.

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News
'The Handmaid's Tale' Has Been Renewed for a Fifth Season Before Its Fourth Even Airs

This tale of rebellion and revolution isn't anywhere near done yet.

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News
The First Trailers for Disney+'s 'Loki' and 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' Shows Are Here

Alongside 'WandaVision', they'll hit the streaming platform in the first half of 2021.

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News
Pantone Has Announced Two "Enduring and Uplifting" Colours of the Year for 2021

Paired together, Ultimate Gray and vibrant yellow Illuminating are designed to convey "a message of happiness supported by fortitude".

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Netflix Has Revealed the 17 Most Popular Movies and TV Shows We've Been Streaming in 2020

'The Queen's Gambit', 'Tiger King', 'Enola Holmes', 'The Haunting of Bly Manor' — they're all on the list.

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Event
The Prom

Thu, 3 Dec - Wed, 23 Dec 2020
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

This star-studded stage-to-screen musical drowns out its good intentions with over-the-top pageantry, a self-satisfied attitude and the wrong focus.

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Sound of Metal

Thu, 3 Dec - Wed, 23 Dec 2020
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Playing a heavy metal drummer who loses his hearing, Riz Ahmed is exceptional in this intensely piercing, probing and empathetic film.

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The Ten Best Movies Hardly Anyone Saw in 2020

From topical dramas and animated delights to rousing flicks about the 90s electronic music scene and out-there sci-fi horror movies.

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The Creators of 'Black Mirror' Are Making a Netflix Special That Satirises and Savages This Chaotic Year

It's called 'Death to 2020', and it's expected to release before the year is out.

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Netflix Is Bringing a New Version of Aussie Series 'Heartbreak High' to Your Streaming Queue

It'll hit the platform in 2022 — but you can stream all 210 episodes of the original show in the interim.

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You'll Be Able to Stay Onboard an Immersive 'Star Wars' Spaceship From 2021

You'll hop onboard for a two-day, two-night experience — and you'll be immersed in a 'Star Wars' adventure the whole time.

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Event
Misbehaviour

Thu, 26 Nov - Wed, 9 Dec 2020
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Based on a true story, this spirited crowd-pleaser heads to the 1970 Miss World Pageant as it's targeted by women’s liberation movement protestors.

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Event
Happiest Season

Thu, 26 Nov - Wed, 9 Dec 2020
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Starring Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis, this festive rom-com gives its well-worn genre a much-needed queer focus.

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Possessor

Thu, 26 Nov - Wed, 16 Dec 2020
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

This nightmarish horror film about corporate-fuelled assassination via literal body snatching is one of 2020's most visceral and memorable movies.

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Event
American Utopia

Thu, 26 Nov - Wed, 9 Dec 2020
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Thanks to this Spike Lee-directed movie, watching a phenomenal David Byrne concert film is no longer a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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Event
Mank

Thu, 19 Nov - Wed, 9 Dec 2020
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Six years after 'Gone Girl', David Fincher returns with a ravishing and icy drama about 'Citizen Kane' screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz.

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Event
Monsoon

Thu, 19 Nov - Wed, 9 Dec 2020
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

'Crazy Rich Asians' star Henry Golding turns in a quietly potent performance in this homecoming drama, playing a Vietnamese-born man returning to Saigon for the first time in decades.

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News
A Supremely Festive Mariah Carey Christmas Special Is Coming to Apple TV+ Next Month

The beloved singer will sing, dance and get merry alongside Tiffany Haddish, Billy Eichner, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson and Snoop Dogg.

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'Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun' Is the Side-Splitting Absurdist Comedy Gem This Hectic Year Needs

It's available on Netflix now — and you'll want to binge it all in one go.

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Quentin Tarantino Is Turning 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Into Your Next Must-Read Novel

If you loved the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring movie, you'll soon be able to read Tarantino's novelisation — which'll mark his first fiction book.

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