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.

A groundbreaking and innovative take on the classic hard-boiled police dramas...

The latest short film from filmmaker Octavian Repede, The Death of the...

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