Bette’s Flicks video store is still alive and well, thanks to those who donated! For future reference, this blog will no longer be updating with our latest rentals, but we encourage you to check out all new DVD releases HERE. If you see something you’re interested in, call us at 415-924-2679 and ask if it’s in stock. Happy renting!
~ The Bette’s Flicks staff
First of all, THANK YOU to our loyal customers and supporters who have made donations towards our fundraiser. We are getting closer to our goal, but we still need your support in getting closer to our financial goal! We have a second fundraiser, which includes perks for those who donate, so please do consider further helping us to keep what is basically the last movie store in the immediate Marin area open.
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Sincerely,
The Bette’s Flicks team
To our dear customers, and all movie lovers, Bette’s Flicks (and it’s former incarnation Video Droid) has been providing you with rare and classic films for decades. Now we need YOUR help to continue to stay open. We are virtually the last brick-and-mortar store in Marin County, if we close our doors, you likely won’t find such a great selection of movies anywhere else locally. Our store is trying to raise funds in order to help with our financial obligations. If you donate, you’ll also receive some cool perks, including a donation of DVDs to your choice of library/other institution in your name. Please visit our campaign page HERE.
This blog will no longer be updating with our latest rentals, but we encourage you to check out all new DVD releases HERE. If you see something you’re interested in, call us at 415-924-2679 and ask if it’s in stock. Happy renting!
~ The Bette’s Flicks staff
January 6 Releases
Boyhood
The life of a young man, Mason, from age 5 to age 18.
Get On Up
A chronicle of James Brown’s rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Horns
In the aftermath of his girlfriend’s mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his temples.
Wish I Was Here
Aidan Bloom is a 35-year-old man who finds himself at major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his career, and his family.
The Good Lie
Sudanese refugees given the chance to resettle in America arrive in Kansas City, Missouri. where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives.
December 30 Releases
The Equalizer
A man believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her.
A Good Marriage
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband’s sinister secret?
Kelly & Cal
Kelly, a punk-rocker turned suburban mom, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn’t yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he’s been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it’s the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life.
Last Weekend
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
App
A young psychology student is drawn into the dark and fearful world of a diabolic and mysterious App that starts to terrorize her, distributing compromising photographs, videos and text messages about herself and delves deeper and deeper into her personal life, flawlessly exposing all of her deepest secrets.
December 23 releases:
The Trip To Italy
Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri.
A Thousand Times Goodnight
Rebecca is one of the world’s top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. He and their young daughters need Rebecca, who, however, loves both her family and her work…
Traffickers
Korea’s Black Market, where everything is for sale. Even your life. Young-Gyu was the best. He was an Organ Dealer, smuggling body parts for sale to the highest bidder. His crew was the best an organized team of professionals with top skills and no conscience. But when one of them dies on the job, the crew scatters. Now he fronts stolen goods, and has fallen in love with Yoo-Ri, a ticket agent at the port terminal. Her father is dying, and when she turns to a ruthless loan shark for help, Young-Gyu goes on a search to find his old partners for one last job.
The Equalizer (Available Dec. 30)
A man believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her.
December 16 releases:
Magic In The Moonlight
A romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue.
The Skeleton Twins
Having both coincidentally cheated death on the same day, estranged twins reunite with the possibility of mending their relationship.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.
This Is Where I Leave You
When their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens.
The Maze Runner
Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they’re all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Stonehearst Asylum
A recent medical school grad who takes a position at a mental institution soon finds himself taken with one of his colleagues — though he has no initial idea of a recent, horrifying staffing change.
Calvary
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Guardians of the Galaxy
A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe.
When The Game Stands Tall
The journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur, who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.
Frank
Jon, a young wanna-be musician, discovers he’s bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
Dolphin Tale 2
The team of people who saved Winter’s life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother’s passing in order to find her a companion so she can remain at the Clearwater Marine Hospital.
Catch Hell
Washed up Hollywood actor Reagon Pearce is kidnapped by thugs on the way to work in Shreveport, Louisiana. Trapped in a swamp hut, his kidnappers torture and blackmail him, hijacking his twitter account and threatening to upload compromising material. How can he escape his predicament?
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, you’d have to assume that things couldn’t get much worse. In Martin’s case, that was only the beginning.
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The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory’s Michelin-starred eatery.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Ten years after a pandemic disease, apes who have survived it are drawn into battle with a group of human survivors.
Apaches (French)
Marginalized teens on the island of Corsica embark on a night of mischief that soon descends into acts of desperation and murder.
The Congress
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn’t consider.
Kite
When her cop father is killed, a young woman tracks the murder with the apparent help of his ex-partner.
To Kill A Man (Spanish)
A working class man who, tired of being the victim of criminals, decides to take justice in his own hands.
Field of Lost Shoes
Based on a true story of the American Civil War, culminating at the Battle of New Market, May 1864. A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley. Leaving behind their youth, these cadets must decide what they are fighting for.
As Above, So Below
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Also new in the last week…
The Giver
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the “real” world.
The Expendables 3
Barney augments his team with new blood for a personal battle: to take down Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables co-founder and notorious arms trader who is hell bent on wiping out Barney and every single one of his associates.
What If
Wallace, who is burned out from a string of failed relationships, forms an instant bond with Chantry, who lives with her longtime boyfriend. Together, they puzzle out what it means if your best friend is also the love of your life.
November Man
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
A Madea Christmas
Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she’s coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
The Wind Rises
A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
And a series…
The Newsroom Season 2
A news anchor’s life is stirred up when he’s forced to work with a new team of colleagues.
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