Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you\u2019re watching.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PICK OF THE WEEK: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Paramount Scares, Vol. 1<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: <\/em><\/strong>There\u2019s something of a random grab-bag quality to this five-film collection from Paramount; all are from the studio, and all are horror, though the wild scope of age (from 1968 to 2022) means the styles of horror are rather all over the place. But they\u2019re all worth seeing (or seeing again in HD). Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em><\/strong> (which just got a stand-alone 4K a couple of weeks back) is clearly the best of the bunch, both in quality and presentation, remaining a haunting mixture of supernatural thriller and the cinema of paranoiac dread. Last year\u2019s Smile<\/em><\/strong> has something of a Rosemary<\/em>\u2019s flavor, gathering steam as its heroine becomes more and more unhinged, though its effectiveness is undercut by the cheap jump scares (including multiple wake-ups from nightmares). Pet Sematary<\/em><\/strong> (first issued on 4K in 2019) is a faithful and unnerving adaptation of one of Stephen King\u2019s scariest books, while Crawl<\/em><\/strong> is the most underrated film in the box, a Single-Issue Thriller<\/a> with inventive kills, well-crafted thrills, and a simple but effective set-up. The sole entirely-new-to-4K title is Sweeney Todd<\/em><\/strong>, which manages to be an entertaining and successful adaptation of the Sondheim stage musical while still being a late-period Tim Burton\/Johnny Depp collaboration. (Films include audio commentaries, featurettes, trailers, deleted and extended scenes, and short film; box includes special Fangoria<\/em> magazine, logo pin, sticker sheet, and exclusive slipcovers.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n ON APPLE TV+:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pigeon Tunnel<\/em><\/strong><\/a>:<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>Errol Morris\u2019s previous mano-a-mano films \u2014 The Fog Of War, The Unknown Known, <\/em>and American Dharma <\/em>\u2014 were basically confrontational, with the documentarian sitting down across from a divisive political figure and interrogating them for a couple of hours. The style of his latest is the same, but the approach is different; he and his subject, the spy-turned-spy-novel-author known as John le Carr\u00e9, appear to genuinely like and respect each other, even if they approach each interaction with suspicion. That\u2019s a refreshing dynamic, and it couples with explorations of thematic areas that Morris hasn\u2019t previously dwelled in. Not to worry, though; the hallmarks of Morris\u2019s films (the stylized dramatizations, the hypnotic music, the clever cutting) are still very much in place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n