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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Darla in Space

SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! I am a huge fan of magical realism. The...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Jan 20, 2024

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Mean Girls (2024)

Bigger, brassier, and gayer than its predecessor, Mean Girls (2024) is a...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Jan 15, 2024

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CBeebies Panto: Robin Hood

There is a long and glorious tradition in the UK and England of staging a...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Jan 02, 2024

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