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.

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

NOW IN THEATERS! The third film in the X slasher trilogy, MaXXXine follows our...

A series of deeply thoughtful documentaries devoted to the craft of winemaking,...