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
Paul Foot: Hovercraft Symphony in Gammon # Major

Thu, 26 Mar - Sun, 19 Apr 2015
Max Watt's Melbourne, Melbourne

That title says it all, doesn't it? Doesn't it?

Buy Tickets

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Event
Kidnapping Mr Heineken

Thu, 12 Mar - Wed, 1 Apr 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

The true tale about the abduction of Holland's great beer baron is strangely unfulfilling.

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Event
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

Thu, 12 Mar - Wed, 15 Apr 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

Get the whole picture by watching 'Them' at the cinema and 'Him' and 'Her' at home.

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Event
Unfinished Business

Thu, 5 Mar - Wed, 1 Apr 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

Vince Vaughn needs to stop with the Vince Vaughn movies.

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Event
Seventh Son

Thu, 5 Mar - Wed, 1 Apr 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

If it all sounds like your average good-versus-evil scenario, that's because it is.

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News
Five Pieces of David Lynch Homework to Do Before GOMA's Between Two Worlds

Apart from the most influential TV show of all time, he's made a littering PSA, music, comic strips and his own coffee blend. Get acquainted.

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Event
Project Almanac

Thu, 26 Feb - Wed, 25 Mar 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

The time travel genre gets a dose of immaturity.

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Event
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Thu, 26 Feb - Wed, 25 Mar 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

Well, there's an honest title.

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Event
Eastern Boys

Thu, 26 Feb - Wed, 18 Mar 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

From the writer-director of French TV series The Returned comes a tense and atmospheric two hours of cinema.

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Event
A Most Violent Year

Thu, 26 Feb - Wed, 25 Mar 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

An insidious and effective thriller set in 1981, New York City's most crime-ridden year.

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News
Banksy Just Visited Gaza and Came Back with This Dark Tourism Ad

"On the internet people only look at pictures of kittens."

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Event
Jupiter Ascending

Thu, 19 Feb - Wed, 25 Mar 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

You've got to give the Wachowskis points for dreaming big.

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Event
The Gambler

Thu, 5 Feb - Tue, 3 Mar 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

It may not be a perfect film, but watching Mark Wahlberg play the antihero is as intriguing as ever.

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Event
What We Did on Our Holiday

Thu, 12 Feb - Wed, 11 Mar 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

The Tenth Doctor and Gone Girl's Amazing Amy are far away from this exasperating picture.

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Event
Flickerfest Melbourne

Wed, 18 Feb, 2015
Kino Cinemas, Melbourne

One of Australia's best short film festivals rolls into town, with a lot of local love to share.

Buy Tickets

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News
The Hi-Fi Bar Goes Into Administration

Damn.

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Event
Mortdecai

Thu, 29 Jan - Wed, 18 Feb 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

So many stars, so little value.

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News
Ten Films From Sundance We're Hoping Make It to Australia

With the Sundance Film Festival wrapping up yesterday, we've got a whole lot of brand new must-sees for 2015.

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Event
Foxcatcher

Thu, 29 Jan - Wed, 11 Mar 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo are all transformed for this Oscar-nominated wrestling thriller.

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American Sniper

Thu, 22 Jan - Wed, 4 Mar 2015
Various cinemas in Melbourne

The Oscar Best Picture nominee that's proven a step too warmongery for some.

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