For Cinema Scope 91 (online now), an essay on Cronenberg's latest, ahead of an interview with Cronenberg by Don "Wippet" McKellar. Short version is that Cronenberg somehow manages to maintain all the expected sci-fi trappings while also pointing up to the limits of the allegorical readings that sci-fi narratives are so conducive to—that is, the limitations of reading its future solely in relation to our present. Excerpt below:
David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future may be marked as a “return”…