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.

Magical Realism is a glorious subgenre of film where the fantastical occurs in...

It's a common misconception among Americans today that African Americans had it...

Blue-collar science fiction is a time-honored tradition. Silent Running, Dark...