A soaring animated story receiving a live-action update tops the DVD releases for the week of Aug. 12.

"How to Train Your Dragon": A young Viking boy breaks with culture by befriending and training a dragon in this update of the DreamWorks trilogy.

"With original writer/director Dean DeBlois behind the camera, this remake hews closely to the animated version, and lovingly maintains the elements that made audiences fall in love with the films in the first place," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "'How to Train Your Dragon,' in any form, remains one of our most heartening tales."

NEW ON DVD AUG. 12

"The Accountant 2": The sequel to the 2016 film about an autistic accountant (Ben Affleck) who serves dangerous clients sees the protagonist team up with the feds and his assassin brother (Jon Bernthal) to target human traffickers.

"1923: A Yellowstone Origin Story: Season Two": Taylor Sheridan's Paramount+ drama starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren returns as the settler Duttons strive to carve out a home in the West.

"A Good Girl's Guide to Murder: Season One": This limited series based on author Holly Jackson's YA mystery novel finds a teen girl looking into a cold case for her senior project at school.

"Death Valley: Season One": Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth star in this British crime show in the vein of "Castle," as a former actor on procedurals and actual police detective investigating murders.

"Freaky Tales": Set in 1987 Oakland, an as-yet-ungentrified hotbed of predatory cops and neo-Nazi scum, the movie rattles off a quartet of stories, each of which becomes a kind of revenge fantasy in which Black, Asian, Latino and queer protagonists rise up and sometimes join forces against bullies of every stripe. With Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis and Ben Mendelsohn.

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