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Upper Middle Brow
http://uppermiddlebrow.blogspot.com
Subtitled "Defending Fandom," the site offers a spirited defense of good pop -- movies and music -- against high-brow elitists, the morality police and the greed of media conglomerates.
- Added on: Aug 25th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Blur vs. 30 Seconds to Mars
The Sunday Times (UK) calls the Blur reunion the key music event of the year, which sounds rich but I wasn't there so I don't know. It was a reunion motivated less by money than by a sense of wanting to please the fans -- if you b...
The Long Way Round vs. The Phantom Menace
Few quality actors have managed to keep going after such a flood of utter shit as Ewan McGregor spewed onto the world, but I still like him and am optimistic about the low-budget Glasgow set sci-fi drama The Last Word. ...
The Road vs. Night of the Hunter
British playwright Joe Penhall got tasked with adopting The Road into a script, and he took inspiration from an interesting source: "In a very old-fashioned way, it was a story about people embar...
Mel Gibson vs. Wim Wenders
Revisiting The Passion of the Christ after a few years away, I'm struck by how two-thirds of it is a superb movie. The 2004 Mel Gibson movie could charitably be seen as a smart discourse on the u...
Danny Boyle vs. Brad Bird
Top 10 lists are meant to generate indignation and debate, and so it is with my top 10 movies of the decade. I'm less interested in coming up with the ten best, which implies some kind of objective ju...
Demi Moore vs. Megan Fox
Somebody at W probably lost their job once the blogosphere caught on to the Photoshopping nightmare that is the cover of the December issue. An entire chunk of Demi Moore's hip appears to be mis...
