Whether you’ve played chess or not, you may want to try it after watching – The Queen’s Gambit. Netflix’s new historical drama miniseries based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel (same name as the show) is one of the most interesting and intriguing shows starring Anya Taylor Joy (Beth Harmon).

Not many stories begin with a tragedy and flow forward. This show moves ahead, giving us glimpses of the past through the protagonist herself.

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This beautiful work of fiction by Woody Allen takes us back to the 1920s with its vintage cars, beautiful vintage dresses, jazzy tunes, and unending, meaningful conversations with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau and the likes of them.

“Paris is the most beautiful in the rain”

Gil (Owen Wilson), essentially a screenwriter, trying to write a book about a man in a nostalgia shop, stumbles into this fantasy world in Paris and comes across Hemingway.

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It’s not like all the usual romantic films, Before trilogy is just simple, realistic and yet mesmerising. Most romantic films are about two people who just meet then they fall in love and then the story goes on to months later or years later but this not all that you find in Richard Linklater’s film.

Before Sunrise begins simple with the same usual angle (and fictional idea) but it turns into something different, it becomes less about falling in love and more about conversations and getting to know someone without expecting it all to turn into something.

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