Our movie critic's picks of the week

The 72d Golden Globes (8-11 p.m. Sunday on NBC). Tina Fey and Amy Poehler preside over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual lovefest, offering a looser, goosier preview of many of the same awards to be meted out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in six weeks. Cumberbatch or Oyelowo? Moore or Witherspoon? Boyhood or Selma? Birdman or Into the Woods? Just about everyone shows up at the Beverly Hilton Hotel's Grand Ballroom for the free drinks and food. And count on George Clooney's being there - he's the recipient of the 2015 Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Babadook (Amazon Instant Play, iTunes, GooglePlay, other VOD options). From Australian director Jennifer Kent, a supremely creepy, darkly amusing look at the challenges of single-parenting. A horror story about a mother and her son, haunted and taunted by a picture book bogeyman come to life. Or is Mum (Essie Davis) simply going mad? And now you can order your very own copy of the profoundly disturbing Mister Babadook pop-up book, at thebabadook.com. More than 4,500 Babadook fiends have already ordered theirs, virtually ensuring psychic unrest and parental inquietude in households across the land. No MPAA rating

Fury (Amazon Instant Play, iTunes, Vudu, other VOD options). Brad Pitt leads a Sherman tank crew through battle-scarred Germany in the waning months of World War II in David Ayer's visceral, violent combat film. The director pushes his actors to find the adrenalized fear, and fire, in their guts. Pitt brings his Sgt. "Wardaddy" Collier alive in ways that put his cartoonish Inglourious Basterds Army lieutenant to shame. In its narrow focus (as narrow as the view from the tank's periscope), the film doesn't offer any kind of broad take on the horrors of war - other than to put those horrors right in front of us, in plain view. R

The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Princeton University Press, $35). With Disney's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's fairy tale mash-up musical Into the Woods finding a wide, wide-smiling reception at the box office, it's the perfect time to consider the source: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's dark and stormy tales of "Rapunzel," "Cinderella," and "Little Red Cap" among them. Andrea Dezsö's illustrations - black-and-white, woodcut-like silhouettes - add the right note of eerie timelessness to these wondrous, wondrously strange yarns. Our fave lesser-known Grimm's: "Hans the Hedgehog," "Faithful Ferdinand and Unfaithful Ferdinand," and "Herr Fix-It-Up."