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.

SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Perfect, the first feature-length film from...

Vignette films are wonderful things. Ever since I saw my first one, Todd...

Fast, brutal, and snarky, I Know Exactly How You Die hits all the proverbial...