Sarah Ward

Name: 'John Wick' Marathon
Start: 2023-03-04
End: 2023-03-04
Location: Australia

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
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Thu, 5 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Brisbane

Jenny Slate's cute viral hit is even more adorable — and thoughtful, intelligent and meta — in movie form.

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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Thu, 5 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Melbourne

Jenny Slate's cute viral hit is even more adorable — and thoughtful, intelligent and meta — in movie form.

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Event
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Thu, 5 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Sydney

Jenny Slate's cute viral hit is even more adorable — and thoughtful, intelligent and meta — in movie form.

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Event
The Fabelmans

Thu, 5 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Brisbane

Steven Spielberg takes inspiration from his film-obsessed childhood in this sincere and perceptive coming-of-age story, family drama and ode to cinema.

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Event
The Fabelmans

Thu, 5 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Melbourne

Steven Spielberg takes inspiration from his film-obsessed childhood in this sincere and perceptive coming-of-age story, family drama and ode to cinema.

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News
Gripping Murder-Mystery 'Black Snow' Is Streaming's First Must-See New Australian Series of 2023

Travis Fimmel leads this North Queensland-set thriller, which jumps between 1994 and 2019 to investigate a shock murder of an Australian South Sea Islander teenager.

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Event
The Fabelmans

Thu, 5 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Sydney

Steven Spielberg takes inspiration from his film-obsessed childhood in this sincere and perceptive coming-of-age story, family drama and ode to cinema.

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News
The Ten Best Places to Play Lawn Bowls in Brisbane for 2024

Where beer and barefootedness reign.

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Event
Parmesan Wheel Week 2023

Sun, 1 Jan - Sun, 15 Jan 2023
Cucinetta, South Yarra

Eat pasta served straight out of a parmesan wheel.

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Event
A Man Called Otto

Sun, 1 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Brisbane

Tom Hanks gets cantankerous in this by-the-numbers Americanisation of Swedish hit 'A Man Called Ove'.

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Event
A Man Called Otto

Sun, 1 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Melbourne

Tom Hanks gets cantankerous in this by-the-numbers Americanisation of Swedish hit 'A Man Called Ove'.

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Event
A Man Called Otto

Sun, 1 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Sydney

Tom Hanks gets cantankerous in this by-the-numbers Americanisation of Swedish hit 'A Man Called Ove'.

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Event
Blueback

Sun, 1 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Brisbane

Another Tim Winton novel heads to the screen, this time starring Mia Wasikowska and directed by 'The Dry' filmmaker Robert Connolly.

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Blueback

Sun, 1 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Melbourne

Another Tim Winton novel heads to the screen, this time starring Mia Wasikowska and directed by 'The Dry' filmmaker Robert Connolly.

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Event
Blueback

Sun, 1 Jan - Wed, 25 Jan 2023
Various cinemas in Sydney

Another Tim Winton novel heads to the screen, this time starring Mia Wasikowska and directed by 'The Dry' filmmaker Robert Connolly.

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News
Twelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in December

Make a couch date with the new 'Knives Out' whodunnit, Annie Murphy's latest gem, a steamy romance and an ace Aussie rom-com sitcom.

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News
The New Movies You Can Watch at Australian Cinemas From Boxing Day 2022

Spend the biggest cinema-going day of the year with an Oscar frontrunner, a savage satire of privilege, a Whitney Houston biopic and Antonio Banderas voicing a mischievous cat.

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News
Hello Wisconsin: The Trailer for Netflix's 'That '90s Show' Is Here and Dripping with Nostalgia

'That '70s Show' is getting a sequel series, focusing on 90s teen Leia Forman — and featuring the bulk of the OG sitcom's cast.

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The 15 Best Films of 2022

From mesmerising South Korean thrillers to spectacular music documentaries — and including multiverse madness, volcano love stories and a cannibalistic Timothée Chalamet, too — here's the cream of 2022's cinematic crop.

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Virgin's Boxing Day Sale Is Slinging 800,000 Domestic and International Flights with Prices From $55

Give yourself cheap flights to Tokyo, Bali and Vanuatu as a post-Christmas gift.

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