In an episode more moving and raw than ever before, a traumatised Ellie grabs a gun and rides off to take revenge. But can she possibly make it – and who are the scarred newbies?

This article contains spoilers for the The Last of Us season two. Please do not read unless you have seen episodes one to three.

Despite growing up amid a fungal apocalypse that she alone may have the ability to undo, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) is a typical teenager in one key regard: constant sarcastic backchat. We’ve seen the unfiltered 19-year-old dish it out to friends and authority figures alike, rarely thinking twice before saying whatever is on her mind. Which makes it all the more affecting when she spends so much of this episode in pained silence, grieving for the surrogate father she helplessly watched get killed at the end of last week’s relentless emotional wringer .

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The circumstances of Carol and Stephen Baxter’s deaths in 2023 were so baffling, and so hideous, that everyone involved in the case can barely hold it together as they relive it. What a horrific world

What are we going to do with all the bad people? Like, really? What are we going to do with all the people whose stories hurl your mind back to a primitive state of lusting for vengeance, or make you long for a simpler time when the conclusion “They are evil” was considered a sufficient explanation and you could proceed with their punishment and society’s protection?

Such are the thoughts that run through one’s mind when confronted with the likes of The Essex Millionaire Murders. The two-part documentary tells the grimly shocking story of the 2023 murders of Carol and Stephen Baxter. They were found dead in their home in Mersea, Essex, by their daughter Ellena. There were no marks on the bodies, no injuries, no signs of a break-in. Carol had become increasingly ill since they moved there, apparently from Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disorder, and husband Stephen had become her carer. Had it all become too much and they had then made a suicide- or murder-suicide pact? They had seemed a devoted couple and, though it was all mysterious, stranger things have happened: post-mortem and toxicology reports would, hopefully, offer answers.

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Detectives Crockett and Tubbs are set to return in a new big screen take on the 80s cop show from Joseph Kosinski

Detectives Crockett and Tubbs are in line for a new look with 80s cop show Miami Vice set to make a big screen comeback.

The Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski has been set as director of a new take on the NBC series which followed two undercover cops trying to dismantle the world of illegal drugs in Miami.

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Hollywood actor and jazz musician, in UK to launch fourth album and play concerts, arrives in King’s Cross

In what was once a red-light district, between a furniture shop and a recruitment agency, Jeff Goldblum is selling T-shirts.

And not only T-shirts, the Hollywood A-lister is also selling his own jazz albums, while meeting fans and signing their merchandise. He has not had to work too hard to sell himself to the crowds of people waiting to meet him on a sunny Monday afternoon in London – the queues stretched more than 50 yards.

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There’s an air of Groundhog Day to this latest review, and little faith among employees that it will mean real change

A detailed review into workplace bullying and harassment at the BBC found stars behaving badly, untouchable and unchallenged, with staff too fearful to speak out. Called Respect at Work, the review into the culture that incubated Jimmy Savile was published in 2013.

Since then, the Huw Edwards scandal – along with allegations about other stars including Gregg Wallace (which he has said were “not all true”) – has led to another BBC review into its own culture. Given it has exactly the same name and was written by the same consultancy, it seems fair to ask: what exactly has changed?

Jane Martinson is a Guardian columnist

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Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’

A writer and critic has launched a new independent press that will focus on publishing books by male writers.

Conduit Books, founded by Jude Cook, will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focusing initially on male authors”.

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He was hit by the same bullet that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The film-maker talks about his hopes for his western, his complicated feelings towards star Alec Baldwin – and why the industry hasn’t learned

Joel Souza never liked guns. “I didn’t grow up around them and I don’t like the culture,” says the grey-haired 51-year-old film-maker sitting at a desk at his home in Pleasanton, California. “Guns make me recoil. The idea of touching one, picking one up, I find very off-putting.”

In October 2021 he was in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the set of his sixth feature, the western Rust, when a gun being held by the film’s star, Alec Baldwin, was discharged accidentally during rehearsals. The weapon should have been loaded with blanks but a live round had found its way into the chamber. The movie’s Ukrainian cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally wounded. Souza was hit in the shoulder by the same bullet that killed her.

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The record-breaking box office for A Minecraft Movie has been followed by a rush of announcements for more films based on games

Margot Robbie and Sydney Sweeney are two of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood. As such, they’ve both logged their time in superhero movies of recent vintage (though Robbie’s turn as Harley Quinn is probably better-known than whatever Sweeney found herself doing in Madame Web). It feels notable, then, that in recent weeks they’ve both been connected to multiple projects based on video games. Robbie’s Lucky Chap plans to produce a movie based on The Sims ; Sweeney, meanwhile, will produce OutRun , based on a 30-year-old arcade game, and has also signed to star in a movie based on the more recent hit game Split Fiction . Score a bunch of points for the gamers. Is the dawn of gamer cinema finally here?

Regardless of this Hot Lady defection, superhero movies and other comics-based properties will likely stick around for years to come. Marvel still kicks off the summer movie season this week with Thunderbolts, and the MCU series in particular has probably reached (and touched) too many people to go the way of Transformers movies quite yet. Still: games are providing major competition as far as Hollywood’s favorite IP. While Marvel and DC movies have flopped left and right in the past two years, that same period has seen the release of the top three videogame-based movies of all time. That list includes A Minecraft Movie, which is still raking in money even after the Chicken Jockey riots have quieted.

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The actor describes the horrifying details of the ordeal that left him with 38 broken bones in his upcoming memoir

Jeremy Renner has detailed the chain of events which led to him being crushed by his own snowplough on New Year’s Day 2023.

Writing in his upcoming memoir, Renner, 54, has shared his memories of the moments before and during his experience being dragged under his own vehicle while trying to save his 27-year-old nephew, Alexander Fries, outside his home in Lake Tahoe.

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