Southern Discomfort for a Hollywood Talk-Show Host
di Matt Zoller Seitz The New York Times
Late in “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins,” a comedy about a talk-show host (Martin Lawrence) revisiting his relatives down South, there’s a scene in which characters sit in the family patriarch’s living room playing video games. The scene is already funny because the competitors are playing on a bulky 1977 television while the hero’s recent gift to his father, a flat-screen plasma set, sits unopened in a box nearby. But the crowning touch is a throwaway detail: The TV’s knob is missing its button, and in its place is a pair of pliers clamped over the metal stem. [...]
di Matt Zoller Seitz, articolo completo (3485 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 8 Febbraio 2008