I’m locked in a rental suite in downtown Toronto and I won’t be coming out for 14 days – not to buy groceries or medicine or for a walk around the block (even with my hands in my pockets and a ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...