Catch a mountain trout on a frozen South Korean river, witness a fiery pelting of devotees in Taiwan or find your cold-weather bliss in a Japanese snow maze.
While Brendan Fraser delivers a performance of a lifetime, much of “The Whale’s” angle makes the viewer uncomfortable and not in a good way, writes Kirsten Mettler.
Slender Courteney Cox portraying a plump teenage Monica Geller on “Friends” started the gag in ’90s Hollywood. Gwyneth Paltrow’s role in “Shallow Hal” kept..