While Paul Reubens introduced his Pee-wee Herman character onstage in the early 1980s, the world was formally introduced to the fun-loving childlike character in the 1985 film Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.

MILWAUKEE - Meet the man behind the character. ‘Pee-wee as Himself’ is now available to stream on HBO Max. Gino Salomone sits down with Director Matt Wolf.

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. The film is adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low,” in which a wealthy businessman ...

HBO’s new two-part docu-series “Pee-wee as Himself,” streaming Friday, prompts an eye-opening reconsideration of the phenomenon that was Pee-wee Herman, the celebrated children’s host whose shows ...

"I was born in 1938 in a little house on the edge of the Mississippi River; my father worked on a steamboat and his name was Steamboat Milton," says Paul Reubens by way of misdirection in Matt Wolf's ...

The stunt bicycle from the 1985 movie "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," a Hollywood prop that plays an outsize role in Alamo pop culture, will be on public display at the historic site beginning Saturday.

Pee-wee Herman’s red bike is headed to a museum at the Alamo —for good. The original stunt bicycle used by Paul Reubens in the 1985 Tim Burton film Pee-wee’s Big Adventure has been acquired by the ...

It’s the dog days of summer, during the dog days of the most bodacious decade. “Back to the Future” owns the box office, spending its first three weeks after its July 3 release as the No. 1 movie in ...

Before Disney decided a young Robert Zemeckis was worthy of tackling Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a completely different cast was lined up to produce test footage for the prospective movie. Peter Renaday, ...