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.

  • Half of a Yellow Sun
    Event

    Half of a Yellow Sun

    Thu, 27 Mar - Wed, 23 Apr 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    The setting and the characters may be unique, but you've seen this story, or one just like it, many times before.

  • Romeo and Juliet
    Event

    Romeo and Juliet

    Thu, 27 Mar - Wed, 23 Apr 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    A new Romeo and Juliet aims to eclipse Baz Luhrmann’s stylised 1996 film as the version of current record. It fails.

  • Wadjda
    Event

    Wadjda

    Thu, 20 Mar - Wed, 23 Apr 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Tiny acts of gender subversion are celebrated in the first movie filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia.

  • All Is Lost
    Event

    All Is Lost

    Thu, 6 Mar - Wed, 9 Apr 2014

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Edge-of-your-seat survivalism comes crashing back from space into the sea.

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