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.

Science fiction is fertile ground to explore the effects of pollution on the...

Writer-director Josh Cox's sultry, sweet LGBT short film Dino at the Beach is...

Animated jungle adventures have been a thing since 1967's The Jungle Book....