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.

Event
Big Gay Day 2020

Sun, 8 Mar, 2020
The Wickham, Fortitude Valley

Brisbane's annual queer street festival returns for its 20th year with one of the Spice Girls.

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Little Women

Wed, 1 Jan - Wed, 29 Jan 2020
Various cinemas in Brisbane

The classic American novel gets a sharp, savvy and soulful new adaptation, with Greta Gerwig at the helm and Saoirse Ronan leading the cast.

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New Year's Day Hangover Cure Breakfast and Brunch

Wed, 1 Jan, 2020
Salt Meats Cheese South Bank, South Brisbane

Pick yourself up after a big night out with bottomless Italian food — and bellinis.

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 - Wed, 15 Jan 2020
Select cinemas in Brisbane, Various locations

This lush period-set romance from ‘Girlhood’ director Celine Sciamma is one of the year’s very best films.

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Big Screen on the Green: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'

Fri, 24 Jan, 2020
Eagle Farm Racecourse, Ascot

Get a dose of muggles and magic on Brisbane's 44-metre-long screen.

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No Scrubs: 90s and Early 00s NYE Party 2019

Tue, 31 Dec, 2019
The Foundry Brisbane, Fortitude Valley

Jump a couple of decades back in time as you head into a new year.

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Australia Is Now Home to the Southern Hemisphere's First Museum of Underwater Art

The first two artworks have just been installed off Townsville, with four locations planned across the Great Barrier Reef.

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You Can Now Stream Every Episode of '30 Rock' on Stan

All seven seasons of Tina Fey's hilarious sitcom have just hit the Australian streaming platform.

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'The Woman in the Window' Is the Next Twisty Page-Turner to Get the Big-Screen Treatment

Based on the psychological mystery novel of the same name, it stars Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman and Anthony Mackie.

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The World's First Fully Electric Commercial Aircraft Has Completed Its First Test Flight

The six-passenger seaplane took off from Vancouver.

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Australia's First Set of Indigenous Emojis Are Now Available to Download

Available on Android and iOS, the 90 new Indigemoji stickers include the Aboriginal flag, a boomerang and Australian animals.

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Sweden's Ice Hotel Has Revealed Its Latest Batch of Frosty and Imaginative Artist-Created Rooms

The hotel's 30th annual incarnation features a golden room, an icy kaleidoscope and a frosty depiction of Santorini.

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Sorry We Missed You

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 - Wed, 15 Jan 2020
Select cinemas in Brisbane, Various locations

Bleak and empathetic in equal measure, the latest impassioned film by British great Ken Loach explores the reality of the gig economy.

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The Truth

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 - Wed, 15 Jan 2020
Select cinemas in Brisbane, Various locations

After winning the Palme d'Or for 'Shoplifters', Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with a characteristically perceptive family drama set in France.

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The Ten Best Films of 2019

This year we reviewed close to 150 films — and this devious South Korean masterpiece and hard-to-watch Australian thriller are among the absolute best.

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Event
Jojo Rabbit

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 - Wed, 15 Jan 2020
Various cinemas in Brisbane

Taika Waititi's “anti-hate satire” has laughs, heart and barbs, but it doesn't completely hit all the right notes.

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Bar
Shhh! - CLOSED

0 Constance Street, Fortitude Valley

Fortitude Valley's new gin bar with booths, butlers and bottle service.

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Bar
Ivory Tusk

633 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley

A Palm Springs-inspired bar with a garden terrace in Fortitude Valley.

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News
The Mind-Bending Trailer for Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' Is Here with Big 'Inception' Vibes

It stars 'BlacKkKlansman' breakout John David Washington, as well as Robert Pattinson, Michael Caine and Aussie actor Elizabeth Debicki.

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Event
Cats

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 - Wed, 15 Jan 2020
Various cinemas in Brisbane

This nightmarish, nonsensical musical is a catastrophe — even with its all-star cast.

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The Ten Best Films of 2019

Jojo Rabbit

Shhh! - CLOSED

Ivory Tusk

The Mind-Bending Trailer for Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' Is Here with Big 'Inception' Vibes

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