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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.
An engrossing, first-person perspective documentary, The Ascent of Mt. Meru is...
By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Feb 10, 2026
OBEX, from co-writer/director Albert Birney and co-writer Pete Ohs, seeks to...
By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Jan 09, 2026
Growing up, my parents were huge fans of folk music. One of the albums that was...
By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Jan 08, 2026
