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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Video Dreams: A VHS Massacre Story

Writer-director Tom Seymour's Video Dreams: A Video Massacre Story is...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Feb 27, 2026

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A Body to Live In

NOW IN THEATERS! In contemplating the life of Roland B. Loomis, who would come...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Feb 27, 2026

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Lendo o Mundo (Reading the World)

In 1961, Paulo Freire initiated a series of ambitious experiments in education....

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Feb 17, 2026

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