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 as a genre takes many strange turns. For example, there's A...

Comedic rock musicals are a challenging form of film to get right. On top of...

Peter Murimi's I Am Samuel continues the recent trend of successful...