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
Take a Sneak Peek at Japan's New Super Nintendo Theme Park and Its 'Mario Kart' Ride

Super Nintendo World opens at Universal Studios in Osaka in February 2021.

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The 'Black Mirror' Team Has Made a Netflix Special Satirising 2020 and It Now Has a Trailer

'Death to 2020' stars everyone from Samuel L Jackson and Hugh Grant to Lisa Kudrow and Leslie Jones.

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The Ten Best Films of 2020

With exceptional dramas, joyous concert documentaries and horror mind-benders, 2020 wasn't lacking in excellent movies.

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The Eight Best New TV Shows of 2020

From a topical horror series and a mind-bending sci-fi thriller to an offbeat Aussie sketch comedy — and they're all available to stream.

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Jupiter and Saturn Are About to Appear Closer Together in the Sky Than They Have in 400 Years

It's called a 'great conjunction' — and it's happening this month.

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The New TV Version of Stephen King's 'The Stand' Will Start Streaming Down Under Next Month

The unsettling plague thriller takes place after a deadly super flu wipes out 99 percent of the world's population.

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Event
The Midnight Sky

Thu, 10 Dec - Wed, 23 Dec 2020
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

George Clooney grapples with space once again in this survivalist sci-fi drama, and the results are generally involving, engaging and poignant.

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Soon-to-Launch New Disney+ Expansion Star Is Basically Hulu for Viewers Down Under

It'll feature an extra 1000 titles — including 35 brand new series — in its first year.

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The Witches

Thu, 10 Dec - Wed, 30 Dec 2020
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Roald Dahl's beloved book returns to the big screen — but this is a tamer, lighter and blander version, even with Anne Hathaway chewing the scenery as the Grand High Witch.

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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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'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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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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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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News
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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