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Kesha is lending her voice for a new documentary on Diane Warren. On Friday, the pop star released “Dear Me,” a song Warren wrote to herself, featured on Diane Warren: Relentless, a new MasterClass documentary on the songwriter that released earlier this month.

“We all know that Diane Warren is one of the most iconic songwriters of our time, but many people don’t know that my connection with her is multigenerational,” Kesha said in a statement, reminiscing on her mother Pebe Sebert writing with Warren in the Eighties.

“Once...

Legendary songwriter Diane Warren gets the documentary treatment in Diane Warren: Relentless, which gives viewers a look at the singular talent and personality of the 15-time Oscar nominee.

The doc is directed by Bess Kargman and features interviews with some of Warren’s many famous collaborators — including Cher, Gloria Estefan, Common, Randy Jackson, Jennifer Hudson, Kesha, and more. It goes inside Warren’s unique process, including visiting her infamous office, a cluttered, chaotic room where she does all of her work. “In this intimate documentary, filled with Diane’s signature humor, audiences get a rarely seen glimpse into Diane’s life and underdog journey to where she is today,” according to the official synopsis. “Marked by a distinctive songwriting approach, exceptional work ethic and irreverence, the narrative delves into her most remarkable collaborations.”

Warren is one of the most successful songwriters of all time. She has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame,...

In the competitive world of Valorant, the balance between agents plays a very significant role in maintaining the integrity of the matches. Any major or nerf to any agent can make or break the character’s usability at a High Elo level.

Patch 8.11 introduced many changes to the various Duelist agents in Valorant | Riot Games

Recently, developers at Riot Games released a patch that made some controversial buffs, to say the least. Duelist-class agents like Reyna, Neon, and Iso got buffed, but Raze got nerfed. However, Iso’s buff has made him what players feared when he was introduced, a Tank.

The Buff That Changed Everything in Valorant

Iso was one of the most underused agents in the pool due to his underwhelming abilities and lack of team-play usability. But with the recent buffs in Patch 8.11, he has become one of the best duelist agents and the community has even...

The Pretenders have set a US headlining tour for Summer 2024 in support of last year’s Relentless.

Planned around the Chrissie Hynde-led group’s opening dates on Foo Fighters’ summer stadium run, the tour will open on July 13th in Red Bank, New Jersey, making subsequent stops in Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and more. See The Pretenders’ full touring itinerary below.

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A Live Nation pre-sale will begin on Wednesday, March 20th (use access code Key) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, March 22nd via Ticketmaster.

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The Pretenders will be spending their summer on the road in support of their latest studio album Relentless. The headlining run, making more than a dozen stops throughout North America in July and August, will overlap with the band’s appearances as special guests at select shows on Foo Fighters’ upcoming stadium tour.

The Pretenders will kick off their summer run on July 13 in Red Bank, New Jersey at the Count Basie Center for the Art. The tour will make stops in Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, Chicago, Austin, Phoenix, Sacramento, and more cities.

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's new Folio Skill Tree system lets players progress Skill Core trees for each playable character and unlock new abilities, buffs, and synergy moves. These skills can be unlocked in any order, but some Skill Cores open more avenues for combos and staggered damage dealing than others. The Skill Core combinations listed here should provide players with flexible combo setups and buff stacks without railroading any characters into hyper-specialized roles.

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March fest announces multiple competition sections.

SXSW announced on Wednesday that Netflix series 3 Body Problem from Game Of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss is the festival’s opening night TV premiere, while Universal’s action comedy The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt is the centrepiece screening.

Top brass at the Austin, Texas, festival (March 8-16) also unveiled feature and short competitions and Midnighters and Global sections, as well as select titles from other categories and Xr Experience for the 31st edition.

Headliners selections include world premieres of Pamela Adlon’s Babes starring Ilana Glazer,...

SXSW Film & TV Festival announced multiple categories for the 2024 event, including Opening Night TV Premiere, Centerpiece Screening and more.

Netflix’s “3 Body Problem,” executive produced and written by “Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, along with “True Blood” writer Alexander Woo is set to debut as the Opening Night TV Premiere. The highly anticipated series, which stars Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Rosalind Chao, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Marlo Kelly, Benedict Wong and Jonathan Pryce, is an adaptation of the best-selling novel.

For the Centerpiece Screening, SXSW will debut the feature film adaptation of the 1980s series “The Fall Guy,” directed by “Atomic Blonde” helmer David Leitch, and starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Gosling portrays a battle-scarred stuntman sent back to work on his a film his ex-wife (Blunt) is directing, when the leading star goes missing. “The Fall Guy” is described as a “big-screen...

Several decades ago, Pet Shop Boys shared a six-track dance album titled Relentless as the second disc of their limited edition double LP Very Relentless. In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the band decided to make the rarity available once again on October 20th via Parlophone.

Back in 1993, Pet Shop Boys released their fifth studio album, Very, to critical acclaim and worldwide success. In addition to topping the UK albums chart, it spawned the Top 10 singles “Go west” (a Village People cover) and “Can you forgive her?” They expanded the release with the aforementioned Very Relentless while also making Relentless available as a standalone vinyl limited to 500 copies. The six tracks on the latter album have not been available since then.

The reissue of Relentless will be available as a limited edition yellow vinyl with new artwork, as well as in CD and digital formats. Pre-orders are ongoing. See the artwork and tracklist below.

Guns N’ Roses’ summer tour has been rich in surprises: an updated and shuffling set list, the debut of the new song “Perhaps,” and guests ranging from Carrie Underwood to Andrew Dice Clay. Add Chrissie Hynde to that list. On Monday, the Pretenders leader joined Axl Rose and the band onstage at Boston’s Fenway Park to play some mean harmonica on “Bad Obsession.”

The bluesy song, off Use Your Illusion I, has been a staple of Gn’R’s World Tour set, typically coming in the Number Two slot...

Following Foo Fighters’ surprise Friday performance at Glastonbury, Dave Grohl stuck around for another unannounced cameo on Saturday: the Foo Fighters frontman played drums for Pretenders during their own set at the UK festival.

Grohl wasn’t the only big-name guest to join Chrissie Hynde-led outfit. Johnny Marr, who briefly played in Pretenders following The Smiths’ breakup in 1987, also made a surprise appearance during the band’s Glastonbury set.

The Pretenders’ set included songs like “Back On the Chain Gang,” “Don’t Get Me Wrong,” “I’ll Stand By You,” and “Tattooed Love Boys.” Watch fan captured footage below.

Pretenders are set to release their new album, Relentless, on September 15th. Last week, they unveiled their latest single, “I Think About You Daily” featuring Jonny Greenwood.

Later this summer, Pretenders will open for Guns N’ Roses on their US stadium tour. Tickets are available here.

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The Pretenders have teamed up with Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood for their new song, “I Think About You Daily,” the second preview of Chrissie Hydne and company’s upcoming album, Relentless. Stream it below.

“I Think About You Daily” is a tender, melancholy ballad featuring a gorgeous string arrangement from Greenwood, an accomplished composer outside of his work with Radiohead and The Smile. On the track, Hydne looks back at a relationship with regret. “Things that got away,” she sings. “I treated you real bad/ Now each morning when I wake up/ It’s you that’s on my mind.” Stream it below.

In a statement, Hynde said The Pretenders are “obviously big fans” of Greenwood and revealed how the collaboration came together. “I saw him at the Phantom Thread première where the film was running on screen with a live orchestra playing. We spoke afterward and he expressed an...

FX has dropped the official trailer for season five of What We Do in the Shadows. When season four concluded, audiences were left wondering if Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén) would finally achieve his dream of becoming a vampire. According to the trailer, the answer is a solid "maybe." While the trailer hints at Guillermo finally getting his wish, his transformation seems peculiar and long, as he mentions it takes 60 days. So what is the rest of the crew up to? Energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) is running for office (yawn), while Guillermo and Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry) continue to grow their friendship, Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) visits the mall, and a sometimes blonde Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) is back. You can watch what the Staten Island vampires will be up to in season five below.

According to the show's official season five synopsis, "Nandor feels his familiar...

The long-running fantasy novel series The Legend of Drizzt introduced some major changes to the status quo for the dark elves of Faerun, and these provide an ideal origin story for Dungeons & Dragons drow elf heroes. Author R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt saga is the most popular novel series in the DnD Forgotten Realms campaign setting. While most Forgotten Realms novels have ceased publication, The Legend of Drizzt has continued strong since 1988. Though Forgotten Realms is not the only campaign world for the current 5e DnD rules, it is the closest the edition has to a default setting. Book 36 of the series, titled Relentless, changed Forgotten Realms’ drow forever.

[Warning: The following article contains spoilers for The Legend of Drizzt.]

As The Legend of Drizzt approaches book 40, the series also celebrates its 35-year anniversary this year. Drizzt’s story began prior to 2e Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. The recently released video game Dark Alliance took place early in Drizzt’s history, between the first and second published novels.

New World, a new Mmo title from Amazon, is the tech company’s second video game offering after its online shooter Crucible had a less than stellar launch earlier this year. With this new take on the well-trodden PC genre, Amazon hopes to put its fledgling game division back on course.

Developed by Relentless Studios, the game is set in the 16th century during the “Age of Exploration,” on the mysterious island of Aeturnum. Magic, historical weapons, and firearms coexist in the folkloric setting, as three factions battle it out over territory and resources on the creature-infested island.

The game is combat-heavy and eschews a traditional class-based system for a weapons-based one in which custom build-outs and skillsets are tied to weapons. Combat feels similar to Dark Souls: dodge rolls, blocking, and perfectly timed strikes are keys to victory in a fight. But the responsiveness isn’t quite as razor-sharp...

This What We Do in the Shadows review contains spoilers.

What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 Episode 10

In the What We Do in the Shadows season 2 finale, “Nouveau Théâtre des Vampires,” all the world’s a stage and the players merely vampires. It is a bittersweet ending to a strangely eventful and celebratory season, because parting is such sweet, though often salty, sorrow.

The first parting comes very early. Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) opens the episode in his coffin, a foreboding sign the episode will be a special event. The ancient vampire has to do it without any help because he wakes to find he was abandoned by his loyal familiar. Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) leaves with just a one-word note, “sorry.” But who cares, the Staten Island vampires are going to Nouveau Théâtre des Vampires, or Vampire Theater, as Colin Robinson puts it, g-damn it.

The Nouveau Théâtre...

Exclusive: Undrafted punt returner Vernon Turner might have come into the NFL through modest auspices, but his inspiring life story will head to the screen backed by a high wattage group of producers. Gabrielle Union & Dwyane Wade and Ciara & Russell Wilson are teaming up on a drama based on Turner’s self-published book The Next Level: A Game I Had To Play.

Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions and Wade’s 59th and Prairie Entertainment has teamed with Wilson and Ciara’s Why Not You Productions to develop the project, joining producing duo Brett Gursky and Josh Surkin from Magic Hour. Brad Gann (Invincible and Soul Surfer) wrote the feature script, entitled Relentless, after spending time with Turner exploring his life. Nicholas Katsapas will be executive producer.

This is way more than Vernon making it to the NFL against long odds that were with him when he was a...

NRA TV already has many critics, but it drew even more backlash this week after depicting characters from the children’s television show “Thomas & Friends” wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods.

The National Rifle Association’s online video channel aired a segment in which spokeswoman Dana Loesch slammed the Nick Jr. cartoon for adding two female characters to its cast, Rebecca and Nia, one of which is from Kenya, according to the New York Times.

“They’ve decided that the next stop is Virtue Town,” said last Friday on her NRA TV program “Relentless,” the NRA TV program that she hosts.

Also Read: NRA's Dana Loesch Deletes 2010 'Fired by a Jew' Tweet That Some Call Anti-Semitic

“I’m really, really struggling to understand how in the world there isn’t any diversity in any of this,” she said, as an image of the cartoon trains in white Kkk hoods...

Elisabeth Moss makes no apologies about it: when it comes to season two of her Emmy-winning Hulu series, the erstwhile Offred wants to see viewers squirming in their seats.

Literally, that was Moss' goal when she attended the Hollywood premiere of The Handmaid's Tale season two — and consider the mission fully accomplished. A packed audience at the Tcl Chinese Theater watched in stunned silence as the brand new hour of the dystopian drama unfolded, until the stunned silence evolved into vocal discomfort in the final minutes of the episode.

"I don't usually even watch screenings," Moss ...

Exclusive: Heading into Cannes the Los Angeles-based sales agent has acquired international sales right to the retro family comedy from Brittany House Pictures and Emedia Films.

Frank Lotito directed from a screenplay by Anjul Nigam, Paul Quinn and Gregory Scott Houghton.

Jason Lee, Anjul Nigam, Brighton Sharbino and Hilarie Burton star in Good Ol’ Boy, about an Indian family that moves to the Us in the hope of living the American Dream. Nigam and Lotito produce with Steve Straka.

Premiere Entertainment Group CEO Elias Axume brokered the deal with Marc Bortz of Preferred Content.

Axume also negotiated sales rights to the thriller Relentless by director Lance Tracy. Lauren Shaw plays a woman chasing traffickers across Central America after they steal her daughter. David Castro also stars and Jon Hollis, Tracy and Anton Nadler are the producers...