Action Picks

The End of Oak Street rips a whole neighborhood out of suburbia and drops it somewhere hostile, and survival is the only objective. It's a tense, moving-target sci-fi thriller from David Robert Mitchell, with Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor anchoring the panic. Widely available and worth the big screen for the scale of the premise.

Bullitt is lean cop-thriller action: Steve McQueen's detective chasing mob hitmen through a maze of double-crosses, capped by one of the most famous car chases ever filmed. Critics still rate it 98%, and the chase alone earns the big screen. Screenings are scarce this week — essentially a one-night shot, so don't wait.