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
Queen’s Wharf Proposals Finally Revealed

New microbreweries, art galleries, Neil Perry-led culinary spaces and a six-star hotel. Brisbane's waterfront is about to change.

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Event
Choose Your Weapon: Guns N Roses vs. Nirvana

Sat, 10 Jan, 2015
The New Globe Theatre, Brisbane

Will the November Rain upon Teen Spirit?

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Event
2high Festival

Fri, 9 Jan - Sun, 11 Jan 2015
The Old Museum, Bowen Hills

Want to direct your own festival? Stop by this festival first.

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Event
Myths and Legends

Fri, 9 Jan - Sun, 8 Mar 2015
GOMA, South Brisbane

Featuring a filmic lineup that both includes and is bigger than Ben-Hur.

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Event
Brisbane Underground Film Festival 2015

Thu, 8 Jan - Sat, 10 Jan 2015
Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm

The city's only film festival championing the overlooked and the under-seen.

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Event
Mr Turner

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 - Wed, 21 Jan 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

Unlike his paintings, JMW Turner was not a man of softness and light.

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Mr Turner

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 - Wed, 21 Jan 2015
Various cinemas in Brisbane

Unlike his paintings, JMW Turner was not a man of softness and light.

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Mr Turner

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 - Wed, 21 Jan 2015
Various cinemas in Sydney

Unlike his paintings, JMW Turner was not a man of softness and light.

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Event
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 - Wed, 28 Jan 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

For reasons inconsequential to the movie, it is Robin Williams’ return as Teddy Roosevelt that makes the biggest impression.

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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 - Wed, 28 Jan 2015
Various cinemas in Brisbane

For reasons inconsequential to the movie, it is Robin Williams’ return as Teddy Roosevelt that makes the biggest impression.

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Event
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 - Wed, 28 Jan 2015
Various cinemas in Sydney

For reasons inconsequential to the movie, it is Robin Williams’ return as Teddy Roosevelt that makes the biggest impression.

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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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New Farm Cinemas Opens Second Phase, Adds Affordable 'Gold Rooms'

New Farm Six Cinemas is finally true to its name.

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Event
We Can Make Another Future: Japanese Art After 1989

Sat, 6 Sep 2014 - Sun, 20 Sep 2015
GOMA, South Brisbane

When the Heisei era began in 1989, art evolved with it.

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Christmas Cinema Series at Streets Beach

Wed, 17 Dec - Tue, 23 Dec 2014
South Bank Parklands, Brisbane

Pack a picnic, bring your beach towel and enjoy Christmas movies from your childhood under the stars.

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Event
Cheated Hearts Christmas Party

Fri, 19 Dec, 2014
Oh Hello!, Fortitude Valley

Come, all ye faithful, and revel in the Cheated Hearts melting pot once more for 2014.

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News
Yard Bird Opens Doors of Second Brisbane Ale House

Here's something you don't hear often: it's opening ahead of schedule.

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Event
Nu Year's Eve Party: 3015

Wed, 31 Dec, 2014
Southside Tea Room, Brisbane

Party like it's 3015 at Southside's emphatically themed New Year's bash.

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Event
South Bank Fireworks

Wed, 31 Dec, 2014
South Bank Parklands, Brisbane

Take it back to basics and stake out a patch of grass at South Bank Parklands this New Year's Eve.

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London Calling

Wed, 31 Dec, 2014
The Fox Hotel, South Brisbane

Don't get out of bed for less than a spot at the Kate Moss Rooftop Bar.

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