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The Head (2020–2024) is a riveting psychological thriller series directed by Jorge Dorado for HBO Asia and Hulu Japan. Set initially in Antarctica, the show’s first season premiered on 12 June 2020 with a second season following on 22 December 2022. The black and white portrait hanging near the stairwell features Norweigan polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, while another depicts Captain Lawrence Oats, known for his involvement in the Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole with Sir Robert Scott. The end credits feature a song by Tomohisa Yamashita, who also plays Aki in the series. Also featured is ...

The comedy film, Rifkin’s Festival (2020), is the work of writer and director Woody Allen as an American-Spanish-Italian collaboration. Mort Rifkin, a snobby elderly film critic from New York, confides in his therapist about recent events in his life. He reluctantly accompanies his much younger wife Sue to a film festival in San Sebastián. She works for Philippe, a French director whose ordinary and unoriginal anti-war movie is being hailed as a masterpiece by all but Mort. As Sue and Philippe’s relationship turns flirtatious, Mort becomes increasingly envious. His unsettling thoughts and fears are ...