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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The Beast Within

Opening with a proverb concerning two wolves "at war with each other," The...

By Benjamin Franz in Reviews • Jul 23, 2024

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Sorry/Not Sorry

In 2017, Melena Ryzik, Cara Buckley, and Jodi Cantor reported for the front...

By Benjamin Franz in Reviews • Jul 19, 2024

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The Secret Art of Human Flight

In cinema, the holy, the mystical, and the metaphysical are often framed as a...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Jul 08, 2024

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