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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Mexican Express

Mexican Express, written and directed by Danny Miguel, is about Enrique "Rick"...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Jan 18, 2023

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Chess Story

Stefan Zweig, an Austrian novelist known for gently comedic/dramatic novels, is...

By Benjamin Franz in Featured Reviews • Jan 13, 2023

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The Banshees of Inisherin

Martin McDonagh is a hell of a storyteller. I have been captivated by the...

By Benjamin Franz in Reviews • Dec 22, 2022

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