Mariia Zelenina, 22, knew she was on the day’s schedule when she started her shift as a “mermaid” at an aquarium in China’s Yunnan Province earlier this week. She did not know, however, that she was ...

Writer-director Tyler Cornack looks for the heartbreak in a heightened genre premise. But the tall tale never quite hooks you. It’s not ripped from the headlines, but Tyler Cornack’s comedy “Mermaid” ...