Nearly 30 years after Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s breakthrough movie, “Good Will Hunting,” they are sharing the screen again in the new Netflix film “RIP,” which is inspired by true events.

Seven Taiwanese are among 260 people freed from an online scam hub near the Thai-Myanmar border. Victims are getting health checks before returning home.

You can turn to many places in fiction to indulge this fantasy — particularly anime, where the limit on these sorts of gestures truly knows no bounds. They go big and bold (we’re talking saving the ...