Forrest Wickman

@Slate's culture editor. He/him.

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

I spent months investigating a heinous crime: the wrongest bird in the history of cinema. Tonight the results of my investigation are in print for the first time. (🧵)
https://t.co/JiXzc0s9FV

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

@piaba66 @BirdBrklyn Were you able to get any photos? Where on the lake? Hybrid would be very unusual!

[Alex @Alex172005_]

Definitely making this for my Oscars watch party on Sunday.

[wendell sandico @wendellsandico]

me at Maya Rudolph’s Oh Mary

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

This is the close read of Bad Bunny’ Super Bowl performance that I wanted to read, from @jmrivera02.
https://t.co/MDA2O6jBIj

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

I swear I did nothing to force @Slate’s movie critic to put LISTERS on her list of the 10 best movies of 2025.
https://t.co/rsodL2OXZG

[Samantha Bush @stillonzoloft]

“are you wearing the—“

“Elphaba’s sex cardigan? Yes, I am.”

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

@BirdBrklyn Consider female Ring-necked Duck? Hard to tell from your BOC photo, but that’s what I had with the young male yesterday, and I think I saw them together again earlier this morning, though admittedly I didn’t see the second one well.

[Carl Wilson @carlzoilus]

Today in @Slate: CRITICISM'S BIGGEST STRAWMAN: Once & for all, here's what "poptimism" was & wasn't, and why people keep blaming it for everything they dislike in culture. Most recently the esteemed Kelefa Sanneh, often (wrongly) said to have started it! https://t.co/kNpvo0S7we

[Slate Culture @SlateCulture]

Picture books are not the same as when we were little. In many ways, they’re better.
https://t.co/9HTSPZT8xR

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

LISTERS is the real deal: the funniest, most horrifying movie I've seen since WEAPONS. @TheBirdist explains:
https://t.co/6k25bI6x7c

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

An important scoop from @LouisStaples cc @PulitzerPrizes.
https://t.co/bpKDU133jA

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

@MsAnjaliB @DiscussingFilm I think this is what you’re looking for:

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

Since 2019, @Slate has scientifically rated the scariness of nearly 50 different major horror movies, with charts.

I'm not sure any movie has ever scored as high as WEAPONS.
https://t.co/0viewtrj6K

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

If you, like me, frequently find your life ruined by a horror movie, you can find all of the other movies and shows we’ve rated here: https://t.co/9VWZUtVG5D

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

Since 2019, @Slate has scientifically rated the scariness of nearly 50 different major horror movies, with charts.

I'm not sure any movie has ever scored as high as WEAPONS.
https://t.co/0viewtrj6K

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

NOSFERATU also scored high in several categories (this was, of course, pre-thirst).
https://t.co/rjBLX9FHZQ

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

@CREID2852 @ditzkoff @TheDavidZucker @thelonelyisland We thought about this, and I think there may be something to it, but I think the strongest counterargument is that the genre’s commercial peak was in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, when the Austin Powers and Scary Movie films were making nine-figures.

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

The spoof movie was one of our most popular genres—and then, for years, it vanished. Who killed it?

Det. @DItzkoff investigates, talking to original Naked Gun director @TheDavidZucker, new Naked Gun director Akiva Schaffer of @thelonelyisland, and more.
https://t.co/2sDVDoYX4t

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

@AlexParkerDC @chucktodd @ditzkoff @TheDavidZucker @thelonelyisland I'll tell you what I can say about the new Naked Gun: It was very funny and I laughed a lot.

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

@chucktodd @AlexParkerDC @ditzkoff @TheDavidZucker @thelonelyisland I can't say that that Van Wilder, specifically, came up in Dave's reporting, but the many other bad comedies of that era certainly did.

[Forrest Wickman @ForrestW]

@AlexParkerDC @chucktodd @ditzkoff @TheDavidZucker @thelonelyisland The contempt for Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer is ... bottomless, but David Zucker, at least, doesn't blame them.