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.

Emir Kurova's short film, War of Colors, explores the life of a young woman...

"Hospitals," my great grandfather would aver, "are a good place to get sick."...

This year I have started to explore a more cultural take on my favorite genre...