‘Kong: Skull Island’: Maybe leave the ape alone

‘Kong: Skull Island’: Maybe leave the ape alone

By Matthew C. Brown. Since its inception, the King Kong film franchise has reflected America’s fraught relationship with imperialism, white fright, xenophobia, and black slavery. When the original King Kong film was released in 1933, there were black people being...
UNCULTURED: THE DIRK DIGGLER STORY

UNCULTURED: THE DIRK DIGGLER STORY

By Zak Rye. Between low-brow and no-brow, this is unCultured, where we shamelessly promote and defend some of the worst films ever made. In our first issue of 2015, we delve into the porn-obsessed mind of Paul Thomas Anderson, and his 1988 short film, The Dirk Diggler...