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.

The follow-up to Omar Rogers’ The Bad Visitor, The Bad Visitor 2,...

The latest film from Ari Aster, Eddington, is a wild ride. Set in May 2020, in...

The first documentary from Matty Hannon, The Road to Patagonia, asks a visceral...