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| | village voice > film > Don McKellar retro by Dennis Lim |
 | | But the real draw here, for local audiences at least, should be the premiere of McKellar's popular Canadian TV series, Twitch City, an "anti-sitcom" in which McKellar plays the central character, Curtis, an agoraphobic, passive-aggressive couch potato. |
 | | A deceptively slack study of TV dependence (and other modern ills), it plays like a strange new form of meta-television; its low-key absurdism and layered ironies, though elusive at first, have an appropriately addictive quality. |
 | | AMMI is screening Twitch City in two chunks of six and seven episodes—go with the first six (Saturday at 1 p.m.), which are accompanied by Blue, McKellar's 1992 fun-with-porn short, starring David Cronenberg as a carpet-factory owner with a drawerful of girlie mags. |
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