Netflix's "My Oxford Year" adaptation and Katie Kitamura's novel "Audition" round out our picks for the weekend of Aug. 1.

It’s been a long journey for video games in the world of TV and movies, but over the last few years, video game fans have seen several of their favorite franchise recreated faithfully on the screen.

With Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick as executive producers and Cobra Kai scribe Michael Jonathan Smith as showrunner, the adaptation skewed more toward comedy than crazy action or ...