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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Assassin

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

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Mr. Burton

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

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Wrestling: Then and Now

NOW ON TUBI. Post 9-11, Professional Wrestling – or “wrasslin’” as my...

By Benjamin Franz in Homepage Reviews • Mar 31, 2026

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