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 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...

DANCES WITH FILMS 2025 REVIEW! Breezy, trippingly paced, and dry in its humor,...