In last week’s Alien: Earth, there was a moment where Wendy asked Boy Kavalier how he’d feel if he were one of the Maginot alien specimens and someone cut him open with a scalpel. Kavalier responded ...

The genre mash-up of “Cowboys & Aliens” is more a mush-up, an action yarn aiming to be both science fiction and Old West adventure but doing neither all that well. The filmmakers — and there are a lot ...