Fletcher Powell

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You’re better off using “who” or “whoever” where “whom” or “whomever” is, according to Hoyle, called for than you are using “whom” or “whomever” where “who” or “whoever” is called for.

You’ll sound like a native English speaker rather than a Tommy or Tammi Try-Hard.

#copyediting

Chasing Chasing Amy (2024) On a quest to explore how a divisive LGBTQ+ 1997 romcom saved his life, filmmaker Sav Rodgers is met with a complex legacy and unexpected truths.

FWIW….

CHASING CHASING AMY is on Tubi. Trans boy coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of a Kevin Smith movie! Women! Romance! A filmmaker accidentally traps himself in his own Truman Show!! Only 92 minutes!!!!

tubitv.com/movies/10004...

How many times do I have to watch CARS with my kids before I’m allowed to log it on @letterboxd.social again, I’m up to approximately 6,000

Filipiñana was one of my most delightful discoveries of the festival

A beautiful gray and white cat in profile making biscuits on a blanket with the sun shining on the lower half of him

Biscuit time

DEVASTATING

Why should I watch something that a director didn't even bother to make?

Dispatches from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival Fletcher Powell brings us his thoughts on this year's Sundance films

My first day of virtual #Sundance26:

- Public Access (liked it)
- Levitating (REALLY liked it)
- The Oldest Person in the World (mixed feelings)

Just saw her play young Emma Thompson in a movie (Dead of Winter)! Convincing!

A tray of 16 homemade miso buttermilk biscuits

Two miso buttermilk biscuits covered in sausage gravy

Snowstorm round three (no more snow today): miso buttermilk biscuits and gravy

Snowstorm round two: baked pasta with harissa bolognese

Honestly feeling incredibly fortunate we can just stay in and be warm and do these things on a day like this

A plate of homemade French toast with bananas

Snowstorm round one (thanks @jordankirtley.bsky.social!)

We will not be able to take back the journalistic bastions of the past. Might as well write off CBS News, WaPo, & others. Invest in non-profit news organizations that understand their social responsibility & are guided by ethics, not profit. Make the great journalists more powerful than the shills.

Royals obv

While I also think it’s silly and I’m not world’s biggest Yorgos fan, I do think it’s incredibly funny that somehow Yorgos of all people is now just a default “nominate his movie” guy

This lineup is exactly what the Academy votership overhaul several years ago was going for: More room for genre. A year when the huge, popular movie with the black cast ISN'T the surprise "Oops" omission. And a more international look--nineteen nominations for foreign films this year.

Closeup of Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee

Nothing but respect for Amanda Seyfried, my Best Actress even if the Academy thinks otherwise. #TheTestamentofAnnLee

That international film category is STACKED

I'm super proud of you, buddy

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

“Here it’s combined with turmeric and a bit of garam masala for an unexpectedly complex loaf cake.”

Fwiw, Kansas has Trump at -4.0 and also has a Senate election this year (Marshall, incumbent)

That doesn't explain why it's been going since August though, ignore me

apparently it was on Stranger Things

Oh, FANTASTIC. I saw this at the Tallgrass Film Festival and it's wild. I wrote a bit about it when it came back to town for a weekend.