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TLA South

About Me

* * * TLA Video has been Philadelphia's largest independent video store chain for over two and a half decades. * * * TLA South was the original store opened above the theater, where the owners decided to rent and sell the wide selection of classic, foreign, and late night/cult films they'd screened for years. * * * Now in it's renovated location (with an expanded sales area) right around the corner, TLA South has also expanded it's selection; from increased copies of Hollywood hits to the hard to find dvds we've always specialized in, with a unique selection of documentaries, television series, asian action/horror/arthouse flics (many of which can't be found anywhere else in the city), gay indies, and of course, adult titles. * * * TLA South, where you don't have to search for good films to watch, because they're all around you... * * *

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Review: Eye on Henry Hills

Henry Hills: Selected Films 1977-2008, a program of shorts recently released by John Zorns, Manhattan based, Tzadik label, provides an outstanding testament to the innovation and originality of Ameri...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:05:00 GMT

Kennies Top 5 Supernatural TV Series

True Blood came out on dvd today, so, as Ive already posted my Top 5 vampire movies, here are my five favorite supernatural tv series (that we carry on dvd for rental):5. Dead Like Me: Granted Ellen ...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 10:39:00 GMT

Guest Blog & Review: Martyrs

Some would refer to my dad as an irresponsible man to have let his seven year old son sit in on such controversial greats as A Clockwork Orange, Deliverance and Robocop. I'm not sure if this was a rea...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 09:34:00 GMT

They Call Her One Eyes Favorite Wallpaper Cinema

If youve ever been to a TLA Video store then you know that we always have a movie playing on the TV, the volume turned down, and music playing on the stereo.  The movie might be whatever happened to ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 11:10:00 GMT

Top 5: A Romance In Five Parts

1.   A Little Romance (teen love): George Roy Hill - Slaughterhouse Five, The World According To Garp - directed this quintessential American In Paris love story in which a young girls first romance ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:08:00 GMT

Review of Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960

This collection is titled Rarities but the shorts are so familiar that they will whisk you back to your childhood mornings.The latest of them was made in 1962, seventeen years before I was born, but I...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:04:00 GMT

Five Movies To Celebrate 4/20 To

1. Flash Gordon: 70s tackiness by the ton, Queen did the soundtrack, Max Von Sydow is Ming The Merciless  need I say more?2. Equinox (aka The Beast):  Even if you dont smoke, youll ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:02:00 GMT

Review: Dodeska-den (1970)

Akira Kurosawas first color film, Dodeska-den, bursts onto the screen with painterly composition.   Unlike the stark realism of Kurosawas post-war films leading up to this point, here he uses color...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:36:00 GMT

TLA South Street: Top 5 Strong Personality documentaries

When I was a kid my mums polite southern way of referring to the eccentric bordering on demented was to say that they have strong personalities. So in honor of her social diplomacy, I...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:03:00 GMT

Wonders Are Many Stands Alone: A Review of Wonders Are Many

I was immediately attracted to several aspects of Wonders Are Many, the recent documentary by Jon Else about the making of the opera Doctor Atomic by John Adams and Peter Sellers.  The opera is about ...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:50:00 GMT