Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸

subeditor and film + tv columnist @newscientist. 🍅-meter approved. slattern. she/her

[Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 @inkerley]

AI Confidential with Hannah Fry airs today! Here’s my chat with her about the technology, its social implications and how it could upend the global economy https://t.co/qp9TlJYshj

[ᴾᴬᵁᴸᴰᴼᶜᴷ ˣ @PaulDock93]

A British rapper should do a line like:
“You think you’re an ‘ardman, Wallace & Gromit” x

[Abracadab-rat @nimbus_nought]

When there’s 2 hours before I have to go somewhere:
bad bad bad, I must be productive in this time but not be late . Bad bad bad

When there’s 1 hour before I have to go somewhere:
💃to the sofa💃

[Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 @inkerley]

10 years of Arrival! Dewy-eyed retrospective below

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Denis Villeneuve’s first (and probably best) foray into science fiction, Arrival, was released 10 years ago this month. It has hardly aged and is as staggering as it ever was, says film columnist Bethan Ackerley https://t.co/bpYwNyXoIt

[Abracadab-rat @nimbus_nought]

I mean….???

[Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 @inkerley]

I’m all for adaptations that changes things, but let’s not pretend it’s the text

[VANITY FAIR @VanityFair]

When one reads 'Pride and Prejudice' as a teen or a 20-something, it’s easy to get swept up in the romance. If you reread it in your mid-30s, though, you may come to the same realization Alderton did: “Mrs. Bennet’s kind of the hero of the whole f--king thing.” https://t.co/yqqkAr7LLN

[Clothes-Minded Individual @NBABabySecret]

I’ve watched this 30 times

[Neytiri @Neytiri]

I hear of big news on your world

[Jane Dashley @JaneDashley]

I’ll keep working on this

[Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 @inkerley]

I didn’t even think the film was that bad, but what a fucking loser take

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Taika Waititi has called critics “sad lost souls” after ‘KLARA AND THE SUN’ became his lowest rated film ever on Rotten Tomatoes.

“I haven't read a review of anything aimed at me or my peers in almost 15 years. But I do listen to the people.

So this Halloween, let's spare a thought for those sad lost souls who couldn't achieve their dreams of becoming artists, and thus became critics. The same people who also hated Jojo Rabbit!

Irrelevant. Out of touch. Obsolete. In the bin.”

[NASA @NASA]

We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.

[Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 @inkerley]

Fouracres on Seth Myers… the century of Wolverhampton cultural supremacy begins…

[Late Night with Seth Meyers @LateNightSeth]

George Fouracres and @sethmeyers look back at early reviews of "SNL UK"

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Patrick Stewart was a giant of stage and will obviously be remembered as Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, but he had a great guest spot in a Season 11 episode of Frasier in 2003.

Rest in peace to a legend.

[ali @alibrooke4ever]

so wrong that his final role is gonna be avengers: doomsday. i choose to remember him as the guy who frasier crane did gay for pay for

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

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[Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 @inkerley]

WHAT TJE FUCK

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Patrick Stewart has sadly passed away at the age of 86.

[Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 @inkerley]

@1800WALLHIBOMBA Agree!

[Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 @inkerley]

@_syadoe exactly!!

[Tionne @tionneparris]

Mind you, there's an active story rn about continued SA's by a prominent British celebrity - and the press in this country is not reporting on it bc of risk of that person's suicide. Meanwhile the dogged pursuit of "truth" at any cost in the case of Arday is being celebrated...

[Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 @inkerley]

I was shocked by just how derivative of P&P 2005’s tone the new S&S was. Not knocking it, I enjoyed the vibe, but we could be doing more

[Bethan Ackerley 🇵🇸 @inkerley]

If we’ve proved anything it’s that Joe Wright is owed royalties for the past 20 years of Austen in the public imagination

[Agus @riverscoat]

Pride and Prejudice (2026) | Sense and Sensibility (2026)