BEST (AND WORST) SUPPORTING ROCKERS
Rock stars turn up in the unlikeliest of places, even on the silver screen. While some musicians have...
Film
MU TUNC: THE DIRECTOR OF TURKEY’S FIRST PUNK MOVIE. OR, THE FALL OF EASTERN CIVILIZATION
Filmmaker Mu Tunc describes his film, Arada, as “Liquid Sky meets The Decline of Western Civilization,” which, of...
Boom: The Second Coming of The Sonics
A new documentary on legendary band The Sonics by Jordan Albertsen opens a window on the rich and...
WHO WROTE EASY RIDER?
On the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking film, which made a star of Jack Nicholson, rekindled the careers...
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT: THE FACTS ABOUT WAX TRAX! RECORDS
Not many record stores had their own label, and not many stores could have touched the lives of...
LOOKING FOR STIV BATORS
In his fifth documentary, filmmaker Danny “Looking for Johnny” Garcia takes a deep dive into the life and...
PAMELA DES BARRES: SEARCHING FOR TOMORROW
After a blush of success with her all-girl group the GTOs and a role in Frank Zappa’s 200...
LED ZEPPELIN: DID THEY, OR DIDN’T THEY, PLAY?
Filmmaker Jeff Krulik, auteur of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, has created a gripping film about a Led Zeppelin...
MARK DUPLASS: FAST, FUN AND FURIOUS
The filmmaker, producer, actor, writer, musician and famous brother (to Jay Duplass) talks filmmaking, music and ‘being reckless,...
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL AT 50: THE FILM & ERA-DEFINING SONG BY THE ROLLING STONES
French film director Jean-Luc Godard believed that art was never finished. On the eve of his controversial film’s...
IN THE FAST LANE: A ROCK & ROLL ACTION ADVENTURE!
Australian filmmaker and rock-trash impresario Josh “Sinbad” Collins releases Fags in the Fast Lane, his first film since...
HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT REVISITED
Classic documentary about the crowd at a 1986 Judas Priest/Dokken concert in suburban Washington D.C. never gets old...
ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL – 10 WAR MOVIES TO WATCH ON MEMORIAL DAY
In honor of Memorial Day, PKM salutes our soldiers with a set of films that we feel capture...
THE HORROR! THE HORROR! ORSON WELLES’ HEART OF DARKNESS
Orson Welles’ ambitious movie version of Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness could have been the greatest American film never...