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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Poor Things

NOW IN THEATERS! Yorgos Lanthimos is a master of absurdist storytelling. In his...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Dec 22, 2023

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Benny the Barnacle

A pilot for an animated children’s show, Benny the Barnacle, presents a...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Dec 20, 2023

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Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island

In 1979, Tower Two at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant had a meltdown. This...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Dec 07, 2023

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