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
The Grampians' Epic New 160-Kilometre Walking Trail Has Opened Just in Time for Your Summer Hikes

The Grampians Peaks Trail takes 13 days to traverse in full, spanning from Mount Zero in the north to Dunkeld in the south.

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HBO Has Just Dropped the First Trailer for 'Sex and the City' Spinoff Series 'And Just Like That...'

It's your first chance to get a proper sneak peek at the ten-episode follow-up series, which stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.

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Event
Opera in the Reservoir

Fri, 12 Nov - Sun, 21 Nov 2021
Spring Hill Reservoir, Spring Hill

Head six metres beneath Spring Hill's Albert Park for a night of arias and duets.

Buy Tickets

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Touring Waterfront Music Festival For the Love Has Dropped Its Packed 2022 Lineup

Dom Dolla, Crooked Colours and Mallrat lead the lineup, with the festival heading to the Gold Coast, Wollongong, Melbourne and Perth.

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Queensland Is Reopening to Vaxxed Visitors Nearly a Week Early After Hitting 70-Percent Double Jabs

The Sunshine State might also hit its 80-percent double-vaccinated target early, which is when interstate visitors can enter Queensland without quarantining.

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Queensland Art Gallery Is Now Home to a Permanent (and Very Real) Snowman

A hit at GOMA's 'Water' exhibition over the summer of 2019–20, the frosty artwork has now taken up permanent residence in Queensland Art Gallery's sculpture courtyard.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony-Winning 'Cinderella' Musical Is Finally Coming to Australia in 2022

The Broadway production was meant to debut locally in 2021, but it'll now bring its glass slippers to both Sydney and Melbourne next year.

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Iranian Drama 'There Is No Evil' Has Taken Out the 2021 Sydney Film Festival Prize

Also a winner at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, the moving anthology film explores capital punishment and its impacts.

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Wonderdome Is Sydney's New Pop-Up Cinema That's Screening Immersive 360-Degree Films in a Giant Dome

Recline on throne-style beanbags, stare up a 21-metre dome and watch films that've been designed to take up the entire 360-degree space.

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HoMie's 90s-Inspired Disney Range Will Add a Whole New World of Nostalgia to Your Wardrobe

The colourful 18-piece collection adds Disney characters to the Melbourne brand’s t-shirts, shorts, hoodies and socks.

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Soak's New Rooftop Bathhouse Is Bringing Steamy Dips and Sky-High Sundecks to West End

The Gold Coast bathhouse will open its first Brisbane outpost in early 2022, complete with seven spas, infrared saunas, mineral pools and massages.

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Disney+ Is Doing $1.99 Subscriptions Until Monday If You Need Something to Stream This Weekend

It's also dropping a heap of new movies and TV shows, including 'Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings', 'Jungle Cruise' and 'Home Sweet Home Alone'.

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Spring Hill Will Soon Be Home to Brisbane's Own Movenpick Hotel with a Daily Chocolate Hour

The 96-room hotel will sit on Gregory Terrace, bordering Victoria Park, and will open its doors in 2024.

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The US Network Behind 'Mad Men' and 'Breaking Bad' Has Launched Streaming Bundle AMC+ in Australia

The new service features both new and classic shows — and will stream Indigenous Australian vampire series 'Firebite', from acclaimed director Warwick Thornton, from mid-December.

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Tick, Tick… Boom!

Thu, 11 Nov - Wed, 24 Nov 2021
Select cinemas in Brisbane, Various locations

Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his filmmaking directorial debut with this passionate tribute to Jonathan Larson, as based on the 'Rent' composer's own one-man rock monologue.

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The Power of the Dog

Thu, 11 Nov - Wed, 1 Dec 2021
Select cinemas in Brisbane, Various locations

In her first film in more than a decade, acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion directs a mesmerising musing on strength, desire and isolation, as aided by a career-best performance by Benedict Cumberbatch.

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The New Movies You Can Watch at Australian Cinemas From November 11

Head to the flicks to see Daniel Craig's long-awaited last stint as Bond, a phenomenal New Zealand-shot western and Lin-Manuel Miranda's filmmaking directorial debut.

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Six Brisbane Pubs Are Transforming Into Overseas Holiday Destinations and Floral Pop-Ups for Summer

Tuck into bottomless mezze at Fridays, hit up a spritz cart at the Regatta and pretend you're in Palm Springs at The Wickham.

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Whisky Whisky

Sat, 13 Nov, 2021
Fish Lane, South Brisbane

Sip and sample more than 40 local and international whiskies in Fish Lane — and win whisky-themed prizes at the boozy claw machine.

Buy Tickets

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The Caxton Craft Park Party

Sat, 13 Nov, 2021
The Caxton Hotel, Brisbane City

Spend a day in the Paddington mainstay's car park and beer garden sipping craft brews and listening to live tunes.

Book Now

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The New Movies You Can Watch at Australian Cinemas From November 11

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Whisky Whisky

The Caxton Craft Park Party

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