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

    David Lynch is Coming to Brisbane for an Australian-First Exhibition

    Get the pie and coffee ready.

  • Love, Rosie
    Event

    Love, Rosie

    Thu, 6 Nov - Wed, 3 Dec 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Even if you’ve only seen one rom-com before, you know where this flick is going.

  • Golden Age Cinema’s Polyester Screening (in Odorama)
    Event

    Golden Age Cinema’s Polyester Screening (in Odorama)

    Fri, 7 Nov, 2014

    Golden Age Cinema & Bar, Surry Hills

    Putting the Scratch 'n' Sniff back into cinema.

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  • Kill the Messenger
    Event

    Kill the Messenger

    Thu, 30 Oct - Wed, 26 Nov 2014

    Select cinemas in Sydney, Various locations

    A compelling Jeremy Renner shows the other side of a career in journalism.

  • News

    The Golden Age Puts the Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Back Into Cinema

    John Waters' cult 1981 film is back in Odorama.

  • Win Tickets to See Two Days, One Night
    News

    Win Tickets to See Two Days, One Night

    See the latest from masters of naturalism Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

  • Tammy
    Event

    Tammy

    Thu, 16 Oct - Wed, 19 Nov 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    In Tammy, what you see is what you get – even if you have seen it all before.

  • Hector and the Search for Happiness
    Event

    Hector and the Search for Happiness

    Thu, 23 Oct - Wed, 19 Nov 2014

    Select cinemas in Sydney, Various locations

    Merely wades along the shallow and sugary edges of the self-help pond.

  • Pride
    Event

    Pride

    Thu, 30 Oct - Wed, 26 Nov 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Who knew an account of the 1980s UK miners' strike could be so entertaining and affecting?

  • Son of a Gun
    Event

    Son of a Gun

    Thu, 16 Oct - Wed, 12 Nov 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Star power and style adds sheen to another gritty Australian crime offering.

  • News

    The Five Best Things to See at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2014

    See the music doco that inspired all other music docos, and the award winner from this year's TriBeCa Film Festival.

  • Annabelle
    Event

    Annabelle

    Thu, 2 Oct - Wed, 5 Nov 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Prepare for haunted horror cliches centred on a possessed porcelain plaything.

  • News

    Five Life Lessons We Can Learn from Dance Movies

    You learn more than just the running man when you watch All The Dance Movies.

  • The Boxtrolls
    Event

    The Boxtrolls

    Thu, 18 Sep - Wed, 29 Oct 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Stitching together the sensibilities of Tim Burton and Roald Dahl, The Boxtrolls is a warm and witty excursion through the weird and wonderful.

  • The Little Death
    Event

    The Little Death

    Thu, 25 Sep - Wed, 22 Oct 2014

    Select cinemas in Sydney, Various locations

    A Love Actually for sex, kink and fetishes.

  • We Are the Best!
    Event

    We Are the Best!

    Thu, 18 Sep - Wed, 15 Oct 2014

    Select cinemas in Sydney, Various locations

    The spirit of Swedish punk filters through an astute and involving female coming-of-age film.

  • Jodorowsky’s Dune
    Event

    Jodorowsky’s Dune

    Thu, 18 Sep - Wed, 8 Oct 2014

    Dendy Newtown, Newtown

    Hear about the never-completed cult film that might have changed cinema history.

  • News

    Win Chef on DVD Plus a Kitchenful of Bodum Appliances

    Jon Favreau makes a return to the personal and palatable in Chef. And now you can too.

  • Boyhood
    Event

    Boyhood

    Thu, 4 Sep - Wed, 8 Oct 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Adventurous director Richard Linklater shows you can start a film with Coldplay's 'Yellow' and still have it come out a masterpiece.

  • Sydney Underground Film Festival 2014
    Event

    Sydney Underground Film Festival 2014

    Thu, 4 Sep - Sun, 7 Sep 2014

    Factory Theatre, Marrickville

    There's a film festival for everything these days, so it seems, but few offer cinematic treats of the truly weird, wonderful and WTF variety. Catch our top five SUFF picks, including the book deemed so disgusting that letters pleaded for it never to be made into a movie.

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