Sarah Ward

Name: The Flash
Start: 2023-06-15
End: 2023-07-05
Location: Melbourne

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
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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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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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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Event
Tick, Tick… Boom!

Thu, 11 Nov - Wed, 24 Nov 2021
Select cinemas in Melbourne, 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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Event
The Power of the Dog

Thu, 11 Nov - Wed, 1 Dec 2021
Select cinemas in Melbourne, 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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News
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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Today Tix Is Opening Its 'Moulin Rouge!' Lottery So You Can See the Hit Musical for Just $30

This is your spectacular (spectacular) chance to see the acclaimed screen-to-stage production — for cheap.

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Moonlight Cinema Has Unveiled a 2021–22 Summer Lineup Filled with Blockbusters and Christmas Flicks

Watch everything from 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings', 'A Quiet Place Part II' and 'Dear Evan Hansen' to 'Dirty Dancing', 'Love Actually' and 'Home Alone' under the stars.

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MONA Is Throwing Its First-Ever New Year's Eve Party to Bid Farewell to This Chaotic Year

Welcome in 2022 at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art with an all-local lineup of live tunes.

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Event
No Time to Die

Thu, 11 Nov - Wed, 15 Dec 2021
Various cinemas in Melbourne

Daniel Craig farewells his time as Bond in a thrilling, weighty and emotional swansong that isn't afraid to shake and stir the franchise's usual elements.

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News
'Imaginaria' Is Bringing Its Multi-Sensory Playground Back to Melbourne with Brand New Installations

Explore echo light chambers, bound your way into giant bubbles, wander between shimmering digital vines and take a leap into a three-metre abyss.

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News
Summer Camp Is the Huge New Australian Pride Festival That's Touring the Country in 2022

Hitting up Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Darwin, it'll be the first Aussie festival with international headliners since the pandemic began — with Years & Years and Big Freedia topping the bill.

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Event
'Love Actually' in Concert 2021

Sat, 18 Dec, 2021
Plenary, South Wharf

Revisit the classic Christmas-themed British rom-com with a live score.

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