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Benjamin Franz is a research librarian and film scholar with the University of Houston Clear Lake. He greatly enjoys the strange, deranged, and depraved in Cinema. Also the screwball; can't forget screwball. Comedy is life.
It was in the year of our Lord 1373, when Julian of Norwich was 30 years old,...
By Benjamin Franz in Homepage Reviews • Apr 21, 2026
In the decade leading up to World War II, Japan conquered a fair chunk of China...
By Benjamin Franz in Homepage Reviews • Apr 16, 2026
Among the genres of film that the British excel at is the biopic. Mr. Burton is...
By Benjamin Franz in Homepage Reviews • Apr 10, 2026
