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New on Blu-ray How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Universal DVD, $34.98; Blu-ray, $39.98; 4K, $49.98; also available on VOD
The 2010 surprise blockbuster hit “How to Train Your Dragon” belongs on any list of this decade’s best animated films, and the sequels have mostly held onto what what worked the first time: thrilling aerial action, rich Viking mythology and big-hearted, high-spirited heroes. The third movie, “The Hidden World,” brings the saga to an end for now, showing how the young chief Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) carries out his mission to save Earth’s dragons by searching for a safe refuge far off any map. A somewhat overly busy plot finds Hiccup and his pals maturing into adulthood as they travel across the seas and fight off poachers; it all culminates in an emotional send-off for what's been a reliably entertaining franchise. Special features: A commentary track, deleted scenes and featurettes
VOD The Perfection Available Friday on Netflix
Director Richard Shepard is best-known for his films “The Matador” and “Dom Hemingway,” two offbeat crime comedies filled with colorful characters and crazy plot twists. Shepard tries his hand at horror with his latest movie (co-written with Nicole Snyder and Eric C. Charmelo) but keeps his wild tonal shifts and slippery antiheroes. Alison Williams stars as a cellist who stepped away from the intense world of high-level classical music, only to return unexpectedly years later to her former mentor (played by Steven Weber) and his latest star pupil (Logan Browning). It’s best not to say anything about what happens next. But be warned: Once the film takes its dark turns, Shepard doesn’t spare the shocks.
TV set of the week Public Defender: The Off icial First Season Classic Flix DVD, $39.95
This anthology series was one of TV’s first legal dramas, exploring what at the time was the relatively unknown world of attorneys assigned to assist the poor. The show ran for just two years, in 1954 and ’55. The 26 half-hour episodes in “The Official First Season” box set feature stories directed by Hollywood vet Budd Boetticher, and characters played by the likes of Hugh Beaumont and Denver Pyle. This collection is a fascinating look back at early television and at the American legal system in the early ’50s, before “the right to an attorney” was universally acknowledged. Special features: None
From the archives Warlock Twilight Time Blu-ray, $29.95
The legend of Wyatt Earp has been immortalized in books, movies and television series about a hundred times over, but rarely as well as in Oakley Hall’s 1958 novel “Warlock” and in producerdirector Edward Dmytryk’s 1959 movie adaptation. Heavily fictionalized, the story follows the Earp-like Clay Blaisedell (played on film by Henry Fonda), a notoriously effective lawman who helps thriving frontier towns clean up their outlaw problems, before wearing out his welcome. It’s one of the best of the mature ’50s westerns, covering both the cynical politics of the Old West and its explosive violence. Special features: An isolated music track and a vintage newsreel