Fletcher Powell
Production Director and All Things Considered HostFletcher Powell has worked at KMUW since 2009 as a producer, reporter, and host. He's been the host of All Things Considered since 2012 and KMUW's movie critic since 2016. Fletcher is a member of the Critics Choice Association.
Fletcher can be reached by email at powell@kmuw.org.
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We look at some "rules" of the language that were mostly just made up so people could feel like they were speaking proper English.
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KMUW Movie Club's Fletcher Powell and Hugo Phan discuss what to expect at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
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KMUW's Fletcher Powell says a recently released movie is making him rethink a filmmaker.
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We run through some particularly confusing grammar mistakes and how sometimes we might think we’re saying one thing when we’re really saying another.
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Fletcher Powell picks some of his favorites from this year's Academy Award-nominated short films.
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We run through a few of the many, many English words that contain silent letters and some of the baffling reasons we pronounce those words the way we do.
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Fletcher Powell says a creepy new movie shows the promise of its first-time director.
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We dig into why certain words are spelled ridiculously thanks to a bunch of scholars a few hundred years ago who got a little too nutso about making everything look Latin.
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Fletcher Powell looks at a recent entry in a hugely popular movie genre.
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Some of us like to be rule breakers, but here are a few rules of the English language we can’t help but follow. And we probably don’t even know they exist.