Benjamin Franz

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.

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What Only Cicadas See

Brad Courtemanche has a fascinating and devious imagination. In his first...

By Benjamin Franz in Homepage Reviews • Jul 30, 2026

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The Clutterbucks

Rich Ronat’s first feature-length film, The Clutterbucks, is a delightful...

By Benjamin Franz in Homepage Reviews • Jul 26, 2026

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The Cerebral Organoid

In the 1960s, the avant-garde film movement began. This was both the best and...

By Benjamin Franz in Homepage Reviews • Jul 20, 2026

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