Sarah Ward

Sarah Ward is a film and television critic; arts, entertainment and culture editor and journalist; and film festival organiser. She is the film and TV critic for ABC radio Gold Coast, the Australia-based film critic for Screen International, and a critic and member at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Sarah’s background also spans stints as film and television editor at both Concrete Playground and Variety Australia, and as Goethe-Institut Australien’s Kino in Oz critic and writer. Her work has been published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Birth.Movies.Death, SBS, SBS Movies, Flicks, Lumina, Senses of Cinema, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, Junkee, FilmInk, Broadsheet, Televised Revolution, Metro Magazine and Screen Education, the City of Gold Coast, the World Film Locations book series and more.

Sarah Ward's Latest Articles

Memento. Image: Newmarket. New Live Orchestral Screenings.
Interviews

How Cavs is reimagining Christopher Nolan’s Memento: ‘I've always wanted to score a film on the drums’

The King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard drummer is presenting a new score for Memento as part of the Hear…

Rose Matafeo, Joe Thomas and Paul Williams star as three hapless spies, guided by their boss, Bret McKenzie. Photo: ABC.
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New Zealand Spy review: live and let laugh with this starry espionage spoof

Created by Paul Williams, New Zealand Spy is a spoof in the tradition of Get Smart, but this time the…

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Image: MUBI. Showing at the 2026 New Farm Queer Film Festival.
Interviews

New Farm Queer Film Festival: ‘We're a festival that began to fill a void’

The five-year-old New Farm Queer Film Festival is delivering the goods for Brisbane film lovers in 2026.

The Odyssey. Image: Universal Pictures.
Features

IMAX is doing big things in Australia – can it be Brisbane’s turn next?

With soaring ticket sales for IMAX screenings of The Odyssey, is the future of cinema 'go big or go home'?

The Invite. Image: A24.
Features

The Invite: A24 is still banking on our addiction to anxiety cinema

When it comes to stressful cinema like The Invite and The Drama, we just can't get enough.

Writer, director and photographer James J Robinson. Photo: Supplied.
Interviews

James J Robinson on First Light: ‘I think I processed all of my emotions through the film’

James J Robinson has traded the world of fashion photography for film, with a meditative debut feature about an elderly…

Natalie Erika James (centre) on set with Midori Francis during the filming of Saccharine. Photo: Supplied.
Interviews

Natalie Erika James on Saccharine: ‘Hopefully it makes other people see a part of themselves’

Melbourne-based writer and director Natalie Erika James talks to ScreenHub about her latest film, the freaky body horror tale Saccharine.

Ashley Zukerman and Jessica Henwick in Silo. Image: Apple TV.
Interviews

Ashley Zukerman on joining Silo: ‘It was a little daunting’

After his stint on Succession, Ashley Zukerman has had his pick of some 'really meaty' roles, landing him in Season…

Backrooms. Image: A24.
Features

It's OK to be excited about film sequels, remakes & revivals

In the world of film and TV, everything old is always new again – and maybe that's not a bad…

The Invite. Image: A24.
Features

10 new films we can’t wait to see before 2026 is out

From Olivia Colman's latest drama to the Australian comedy The Fox, here are the big films we're looking forward to…

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