Sarah Ward

Name: MaXXXine
Start: 2024-07-11
End: 2024-07-31
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.

News
The Big Pineapple Festival's 2024 Lineup Is Here with The Amity Affliction, Bliss n Eso, Peking Duk and More

The only music fest that takes place next to Queensland's most-famous big thing, this event is back in a huge way for its first run in three years.

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Event
QAGOMA Winter Design Market

Sat, 3 Aug - Sun, 4 Aug 2024
GOMA, South Brisbane

Shop for Brisbane's best art and design at this two-day market on the GOMA forecourt.

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News
South Bank Is Turning Into an Olympics and Paralympics Viewing Site for the Paris 2024 Games

The inner-city spot's big screen will show the sporting action from 6am–midnight daily across both games, featuring both live broadcasts and replays.

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Newstead House's Official Reopening

Sat, 6 Jul, 2024
Newstead House, Newstead

This historic riverside site is welcoming Brisbanites back in with live tunes, food trucks, markets, lawn games and tours after a three-year restoration.

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Event
First Nations Film Festival — NAIDOC Week

Sun, 7 Jul - Sun, 21 Jul 2024
Online

FanForce TV's Indigenous Australian online film fest returns for the second time in 2024 with Warwick Thornton's 'The New Boy' and four powerful documentaries.

Buy Tickets

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Noel Fielding's Highwayman Comedy 'The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin' Is Returning for Season Two

Apple TV+ is standing and delivering a second season of this British comedy led by 'The Mighty Boosh' star, which riffs on an IRL figure.

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Ocean Alley, ONEFOUR, King Stingray, Cub Sport and Bag Raiders Lead Ability Fest's 2024 Lineup

Dylan Alcott's inclusive and fully accessible music festival returns to Melbourne and expands to Brisbane in October.

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News
Coming Soon: Dumbo Is Portside's New Burger Bar From the Red Hook Crew That's Taking Inspiration From 90s NYC

Named after the Brooklyn neighbourhood, the Hamilton newcomer will serve up cheeseburgers, Philly cheesesteaks, duck tacos and craft beers.

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Melt 2024's First Lineup Drop Features Sophie Ellis-Bextor, a 'Wicked'-Themed Halloween Ball and a Pool Party

The just-announced festivities join Spencer Tunick's nude photography work on the Story Bridge and Brisbane's first-ever River Pride Parade.

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News
Palm Tree Music Festival Is Returning to Australia in 2024 with The Chainsmokers Leading the Lineup

After debuting Down Under in 2023, the fest has locked in a second Aussie run in December 2024, with Alesso, Gryffin, Austin Millz and Daya also on the bill.

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Australian Romance-Scam Thriller 'Fake' Features One of the Best Episodes of TV You'll See in 2024

Starring Asher Keddie and David Wenham, this is the kind of love- and lies-fuelled saga that's impossible to stop binge-watching.

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Event
Sirromet's Fiery Winter Warmers

Multiple single dates
Sirromet Wines, Mount Cotton

Sip mulled wine under the stars while sitting around your own private firepit and eating goodies from a hamper at this scenic Mount Cotton winery.

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Paradise Gloss

Fri, 14 Jun - Sun, 3 Nov 2024
Various locations across Brisbane, Brisbane

A colourful exhibition celebrating play and creativity is filling Brisbane CBD's light boxes, banners and outdoor display cases.

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Now Open: South Bank's Sizzling Argentinian Newcomer Calida Is Your New Go-To for Steak on Grey Street

Menu highlights include empanadas to start with, then bistec tartar, pressed beef short ribs, chorizo pork sausages and dulce de leche cookie sandwiches for dessert.

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MSO's 'Back to the Future' Concert Screenings with a Live Orchestral Score Will Get You Exclaiming "Great Scott!"

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is bringing another classic movie back to the big screen while playing its music live, taking on Alan Silvestri’s score.

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You Can No Longer Cuddle a Koala at Brisbane's Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary — But a New Close-Up Experience Is Coming

Patron feedback has indicated that visitors are "wishing to spend longer with the sanctuary's koalas and their passionate wildlife care team, without necessarily holding them".

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Celebrating Eccentricity and Recognising Existence's Chaos, 'Fantasmas' Is a Must-See Serving of Surreal Brilliance

After 'Los Espookys', ex-'Saturday Night Live' writer Julio Torres has created, penned and directed — and also stars in — another wonder that only he could've made.

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Now Open: The Largest and Most-Complete Tyrannosaurus Rex Fossil Ever Seen in Australia Is on Display in Melbourne

You've got until October to check out the skeleton of a T. rex fittingly called Victoria, which features 199 bones and measures more than 12 metres in length, at Melbourne Museum.

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Minjerribah/North Stradbroke Island's Quandamooka First Nations Festival Has Locked in Its 2024 Return

Jem Cassar-Daley, Uncle Joe Geia and Sachem lead the lineup so far, with the fest hosting its first full-scale event since 2022 across two days in August.

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Cool Characters, Outsider Communities and Wild Career Successes: Austin Butler Chats 'The Bikeriders'

He's slipped into Elvis' blue-suede shoes. He battled Timothée Chalamet in 'Dune: Part Two'. And when the part of Benny in this motorcycle drama came his way, Butler “just felt that I had to play him”.

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