Cronenberg returns to his past in ‘Crimes of the Future’

“Crimes of the Future” (2022) – “Long live the new flesh.” – Max Renn (James Woods) in “Videodrome” (1983) The aforementioned quote is from David Cronenberg’s trippy, sicko story about a renegade cable television station.  Its president, Renn, falls into real-life channels of depravity and inexplicable, fantastical carnage, including an adversary inserting a VHS video tape into the man’s abdomen.  The year was 1983, and VHSs fast-forwarded into millions of American homes, and “Videodrome” played off that pop culture phenomenon.  Cronenberg, the king of body horror films, is back and…