Sandra Hall is an Australian author and journalist, best known as film reviewer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
[1] Hall began her working life as a cadet at the afternoon tabloid, The Sun, studying Arts at Sydney University at night.
She wrote a few movie reviews for The Sun, then in 1964, she left Sydney for Canberra to join the staff of Rupert Murdoch's new national daily, The Australian.
In 1971, she became The Bulletin 's film reviewer and in 1973, she won a $6,000 Fellowship from the Literature Board[2] to write a history of Australian television.
Other books: Turning On Turning Off: Australian Television in the Eighties, Cassell Australia (1981), Critical Business: The New Australian Cinema in Review, Rigby Ltd (1985), Beyond the Break, a novel, 4th Estate (2006), Tabloid Man: The Life and Times of Ezra Norton, 4th Estate (2008).