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
Don't Look Up

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 - Wed, 19 Jan 2022
Online

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence try to stop a comet wiping out life on earth in this big-budget satire, which tasks its star-studded cast with smugly pointing out the obvious.

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News
Marvel Has Just Dropped the First Trailer for 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness'

The first sneak peek at the Marvel Cinematic Universe's 28th film follows on from where 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' left off.

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News
The 12 Best Films of 2021

From Oscar-worthy revisionist westerns to spice-war space operas, 2021 treated the big screen to a heap of stellar flicks. These are the very best.

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News
The 12 Best Straight-to-Streaming Films and Specials of 2021

Medieval fantasies, powerful documentaries, Jamie Dornan singing about seagulls — this year’s best streaming flicks just kept on delivering.

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Event
Black Christmas

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 - Sun, 2 Jan 2022
Online

A timely remake of a 70s cult classic, this is a Christmas-themed slasher flick for the #MeToo era.

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News
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint Revisit Hogwarts in the 'Harry Potter' Reunion Trailer

Celebrating 20 years since 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' first hit cinemas, the HBO special reunites key 'Harry Potter' cast members to reminiscence about all things magical.

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News
The 11 Best New TV Shows of 2021

This year's standout new shows include rom-coms, murder mysteries, and multiple shows about the gap between the wealthy and everyone else — and they're all available to stream.

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Event
West Side Story

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 - Wed, 19 Jan 2022
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

The 1950s-set spin on 'Romeo and Juliet' returns to the screen — and, making his first-ever musical, Steven Spielberg turns it into a spectacular cinematic achievement.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 - Wed, 5 Jan 2022
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

Everyone's favourite friendly neighbourhood web-slinger swings back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe to face a lineup of familiar villains.

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Very Peri Is Pantone's "Inquisitive and Intriguing" 2022 Colour of the Year

The newly created colour combines "a dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet red undertone".

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Nicolas Cage Plays (and Parodies) Himself in the Trailer for 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'

It's the role Nicolas Cage was born to play: himself.

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News
'Succession', 'The Power of the Dog' and 'Ted Lasso' Lead This Year's Golden Globe Nominations

'Belfast', 'Don't Look Up' and 'King Richard' also picked up multiple nods in the film categories, while 'Squid Game', 'The Great' and 'Hacks' popped up in the TV fields.

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'Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore' Just Conjured Up Its First Magical Trailer

Mads Mikkelsen joins the cast as the new Grindelwald, and Jude Law returns as the young Albus Dumbledore.

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Google Has Revealed All the Movies and TV Shows We've Been Searching for in 2021

If you binged 'Squid Game', then started obsessively searching for everything about the show you could find, you weren't alone.

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Event
The Last Duel

Wed, 8 Dec - Fri, 31 Dec 2021
Online

Matt Damon, Adam Driver and 'Killing Eve' star Jodie Comer recreate medieval history in this weighty and savage drama from Ridley Scott.

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'The Lord of the Rings' 20-Year Anniversary Celebration

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 and Fri, 14 Jan 2022
Hobbiton Movie Set Tours, Matamata

Celebrate two decades of big-screen hobbits, elves and wizards at the Hobbiton Movie Set.

Buy Tickets

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Multiple Spideys Are Still Better Than One in the First 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' Trailer

The best 'Spider-Man' movie ever made is getting a sequel — and it'll be split across two films.

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Event
The French Dispatch

Thu, 9 Dec - Wed, 29 Dec 2021
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

As symmetrical, idiosyncratic, thoughtful and delightful as ever, Wes Anderson's star-studded tenth film is one of his best.

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Encanto

Thu, 2 Dec - Wed, 22 Dec 2021
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

Featuring infectious tunes by Lin-Manuel Miranda, this lively Disney musical is a gorgeous and heartfelt love letter to Latin American culture.

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Dune

Thu, 2 Dec - Wed, 29 Dec 2021
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

Phenomenally cast, staged and shot, this Timothée Chalamet-led version of sci-fi’s desert-dwelling space thriller is spectacular.

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