Making Pee-wee as Himself was no picnic for director Matt Wolf. He clashed with the protagonist of his film, the late Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens, over creative control — friction documented on ...

Perhaps the most shocking thing about Pee-wee as Himself – a new documentary tracing the life and career of Paul Reubens, now streaming with a Max subscription – is that the film got made in the first ...

When actor Paul Reubens died of cancer in 2023 at the age of 70, it came as a shock to filmmaker Matt Wolf, director of Pee-wee as Himself. They had spent many, many hours together in interviews for ...