Sarah Ward

Name: IKEA Halloween Dining Experience
Start: 2022-10-28
End: 2022-10-29
Location: Sydney

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
Glass Island Is Australia's Gleaming New Three-Level Floating Venue

It's currently floating around Sydney Harbour — and it'll head to Brisbane later in the year.

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News
Japan Might Soon Be Home to a Dedicated 'Harry Potter' Theme Park

Taking over an existing 94-year-old amusement park, it'll feature 'Harry Potter' sets that visitors can tour.

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News
Netflix Just Dropped the First Russia-Set Teaser for 'Stranger Things' Season Four

The next batch of episodes doesn't have a release date yet — but the series has revealed a very important detail.

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News
Dev Patel Goes Medieval in the Unsettling First Teaser for 'The Green Knight'

Patel is up against Ralph Ineson in this eerie twist on a 14th-century tale.

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Event
Richard Jewell

Thu, 13 Feb - Wed, 4 Mar 2020
Various cinemas in Sydney

Exploring the story behind the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games bombing, Clint Eastwood's latest drama champions a hero — but needlessly focuses on a cartoonish villain, too.

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Event
Emma

Thu, 13 Feb - Wed, 4 Mar 2020
Various cinemas in Sydney

Jane Austen's matchmaker returns to the screen in this dutifully faithful, perfectly palatable yet hardly memorable adaptation.

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News
The First Trailer for Wes Anderson's 'The French Dispatch' Is Here and It's Very Wes Anderson

'The New Yorker'-inspired tale set in a fictional French town stars Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan.

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News
The Site of the Future $645 Million Powerhouse Museum Copped Lots of Flooding Over the Weekend

Wild weather saw the Parramatta site inundated with floodwaters — what does this mean for its future?

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Restaurant
Winghaüs Gateway

1 Macquarie Place, Sydney

This American-style diner has 40 beers — and negronis and margaritas — on tap, and the kitchen serves wings in lots of ten, 15, 20, 50 or 100.

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Event
Port Phillip Mussel & Jazz Festival 2020

Sat, 7 Mar - Sun, 8 Mar 2020
South Melbourne Market, South Melbourne

Music and six tonnes of molluscs return to South Melbourne Market.

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Bar
1989 Arcade Bar - CLOSED

22-24 King Street, Newtown

Mash buttons over a burger or hot brew on King Street.

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News
Thirteen 2020 Oscar-Winning Films You Should Watch Immediately

Catch up on the best films of the last year, from historic winner 'Parasite' to two films you can stream on Netflix right now.

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News
The 'Saw' Franchise Returns with Chris Rock, Samuel L Jackson and More Gruesome Murders

The ninth film in the series, 'Spiral: From the Book of Saw' follows a new spate of killings — and the cops trying to solve them.

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News
This 'Friends'-Themed Brunch Will Be There for You with Bottomless Booze and a Big-Screen Viewing Party

It'll feature 'Friends' trivia, 'Friends'-themed charades and a 'Friends' costume competition, too.

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News
Alice Springs' Dazzling Parrtjima Festival Has Revealed Its Luminous 2020 Program

Now in its fifth year, the festival celebrates Indigenous arts, culture and storytelling.

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'Call Me By Your Name' Valentine's Screening

Fri, 14 Feb, 2020
Chauvel Cinema, Paddington

Revisit this supremely moving romance — on the perfect day for it.

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This Luxe and Leisurely Trip Will Take You Across the Outback on One of Australia's Oldest Trains

It's the Spirit of Progress' longest-ever journey — after first carrying passengers back in 1937.

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Atari Is Opening Its Own Chain of Video Game-Themed Hotels

From the company behind 'Asteroids', 'Centipede' and 'Pong', they'll feature plenty of gaming — and will be designed to make you feel like you're staying inside an Atari console.

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Long-Awaited 'The Big Lebowski' Spinoff 'The Jesus Rolls' Finally Has a Trailer

Twenty-two years later, this follow-up continues the story of Jesus Quintana (and his new mates: Bobby Cannavale and Audrey Tautou).

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All-You-Can-Eat Vegan Pizza and Pasta Night 2020

Tue, 11 Feb, 2020
Various Sydney venues, Sydney

Devour all the vegan slices and spaghetti you can for $25 with a drink.

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