From Sinners to Étoile: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

SinnersOut now Michael B Jordan plays twins, Smoke and Stack, who return home to Mississippi during the prohibition era with the aim of setting up a juke joint. Ryan Coogler’s supernatural horror also stars Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell and Wunmi Mosaku.WarfareOut now Starring D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis and Joseph Quinn, this real-time thriller is based on US marines’ memories of a mission in Iraq. And it’s from an intriguing pair of directors: Alex Garland, one of the most brilliant of current film-makers, and Ray Mendoza, a former US Navy Seal who took part in the sortie.Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien StoryOut now The Irish author, who died last year, is the compelling subject of this documentary portrait, which features final interviews with O’Brien, a writer who counted Paul McCartney, Shirley MacLaine, Jane Fonda and Laurence Olivier among her friends

William Morris’s legacy of radical creativity | Letters

Re your editorial (The Guardian view on William Morris: how the Strawberry Thief took over the world, 11 April), William Morris developed the Strawberry Thief pattern at his Merton Abbey Works on the banks of the River Wandle.The workers who turned the design into a “swinish luxury” formed a close-knit community – the carpet knotter Eliza Merritt remembered “a tradition of comradeship”– whose members lived long, creative lives. The tapestry weaver William Sleath was rescued from destitution by Morris, who took him on as an apprentice at age seven.Sleath became a sensitive artist who continued to produce oils and watercolours into his 70s. His fellow weavers Walter Taylor and William Knight painted still lifes and scenes around Merton Abbey

The Guide #187: The Pitt, the medical drama that’s the best show you can’t watch

Forget Severance, Adolescence, even The White Lotus – the most talked-about show so far this year in the US has concerned the life-and-death dealings of an inner-city emergency room and a doctor that looks suspiciously like John Carter MD.No, time hasn’t turned back to 1994 (however much we might wish it would). We’re not talking about ER here, but The Pitt, a strikingly similar medical drama starring Carter himself, Noah Wyle, but that for legal reasons we probably shouldn’t describe as a spin-off. Since its debut in January, The Pitt has become a slow-burn sensation in the states, thanks to its realism, accuracy and timeliness, but most of all it’s high-concept, high-stakes conceit: the show takes place in real-time, across one, gruelling 15 hour shift in a Pittsburgh emergency department. So it’s not just ER, then, but ER meets 24

Stephen Colbert on potential alien life: ‘Take us to your leader, we don’t have one anymore’

Late-night hosts spoke about the Easter weekend, potential alien life and Donald Trump’s recent meeting with the Italian prime minister.On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert pointed out that this year’s Easter Sunday also falls on 4/20, the unofficial holiday for weed enthusiasts.He joked that it would be “the Sunday he is risen and you is high”.This week saw Trump meet with the rightwing Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. Some had hoped she might “ease the tariff tension” as she is often referred to as a “Trump whisperer”

Messages from the past: Salisbury Cathedral launches graffiti tours

You don’t notice them at first. The eyes tend to be drawn to the grander wonders – the altars, the stained glass, the pillars and flowing arches. But once the marks carved into the stonework of Salisbury Cathedral by centuries of pilgrims, churchgoers and mischief-makers are pointed out, they begin to pop out all over the place.A “graffiti tour” of the great Wiltshire church is being launched in May with guides pointing out what feel like whispered messages from the past.There are thousands of marks, from initials of people long-forgotten to images of animals and flowers and “protection marks” thought to keep evil at bay

Stephen Colbert: ‘People from overseas are frightened to come here’

Late-night hosts spoke about the most recent developments in the Trump administration including his ongoing deportation attempts.On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert said that visits to the US had gone down 11% in recent months and that Las Vegas had reportedly seen an $18m drop as a result.“People from overseas are frightened to come here,” he said before then referencing a Guardian report that shows that there has been the biggest drop in Australian tourists since Covid.He joked: “Do you know how bad things have to be to scare off Australians?”Meanwhile, Trump has been “ignoring court orders left and right” including refusing to stop planes filled with people being deported to El Salvador and since “stonewalling the judge” who ordered them to stop.He is now claiming there is probable cause to hold the administration in criminal contempt