Tom Charity
tcha-cha-cha.bsky.social
Tom Charity
@tcha-cha-cha.bsky.social
Watching, thinking about, writing about movies. Programmer at VIFF Centre, Vancouver.
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TRAIN DREAMS is out in limited theatrical release today. It will be on Netflix in a couple of weeks, but here's the thing: If you are at all able to, you really should see it on a big screen. You will not regret it.

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Train Dreams Is a Staggering Work of Art
Netflix is releasing one of the best films of the year but please, for the love of God, don’t watch this masterpiece on your phone.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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“Jared Kushner’s Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts
Mr. Kushner’s private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.”
September 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
What would Orwell think?
September 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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"happening now: Israeli army raiding the house of oscar winner Basel Adra after Israeli settlers attacked his village earlier and beat up his family member. Soldiers could try to abduct Basel into one of Israel's prisons which are effectively torture sites"

-Yuval Abraham

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September 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
August 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Pottsville?
May 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I’m currently being told by people on X who have never watched my stuff that I must be happy a man has been charged for burning a Koran. A good time to revisit this, which I recorded last year.
May 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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There are still surprises to be had at the movies and this is one of them. Don’t pass on seeing MISERICORDIA. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Review: A provocative stranger returns home in 'Misericordia,' a murder mystery free of convention
Alain Guiraudie, the French writer-director, shapes his penchant for queer subject matter into something that owes much to the cool mysteries of Claude Chabrol.
www.latimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Barry Sonnenfeld—the director of Men in Black, The Addams Family, and more—is coming to Books & Ideas with a hilarious new memoir. Hear the icon in conversation with year-round VIFF programmer @tcha-cha-cha.bsky.social

April 4, presented with @viffest.bsky.social
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Books & Ideas: Barry Sonnenfeld in Conversation | Vancouver Writers Fest
One-of-a-kind filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld tells stories only he can tell. In this hilarious and enlightening new memoir, he provides an inside glimpse into how Hollywood really works (or doesn’t), from...
writersfest.bc.ca
February 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Total USAID annual spending to provide food, medicine, shelter and other services to impoverished countries around the world: $38 billion

Total increase in Elon Musk's personal net worth since the November election: $156 billion
February 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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BOTD Seymour Cassel!! Cassavetes affiliate (Faces, Minnie/Mosk, Chinese Bookie, Love Streams, ++), but note > 200 roles
More:
@tcha-cha-cha.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@dwhdaily.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@petersob13.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/features/sey...
January 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Genuinely surprised that President Trump paid tribute to the passing of David Lynch in his inaugural address today. Gives one hope.
January 21, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Full house for opening night of our Bong Joon-ho retro. (Mind you, we also sold out the hummingbird doc this afternoon.)
January 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024

A video countdown

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January 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
January 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
It’s a White Dawn Xmas
December 26, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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Remember on this day that, canonically, George Bailey’s re-discovery of the value of his life takes place at the same time as the failed hit attempt on Vito Corleone.
December 25, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Adding: Who By Fire
December 24, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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A brief thread on teaser trailers that have footage only shot for them & not used in the actual films. youtu.be/2HdCmf91q_A?...
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) - Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by logofreak98
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December 22, 2024 at 2:36 AM
December 17, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Had no idea Train was in 3D for that matter. Of course I had heard the story of patrons fearing for their lives. Which seems more credible now
December 10, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Strands #282
“Something to see”
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Well that was an easy one
December 10, 2024 at 4:38 PM
still thinking about yesterday’s truly fascinating Q&A with Brigitte Berman, talking about her film Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got. A trove of insight into the man
December 9, 2024 at 10:03 PM