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.

There is a long and glorious tradition of office-related romantic...

When a film claims to be "based on a true story," unless there's a primary...

The faux-documentary format was first appropriated for a fictional narrative by...