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From space odysseys to star wars, alien invaders to guardians of the galaxy — the best science films since the genre first took a trip to the moon.

Not all of the best scary animal movies feature shark or dinosaur attacks.

As Sidney Lumet’s biopic of whistleblower Frank Serpico returns to cinemas for its 50th anniversary, we look back to Philip French’s exploration of the burgeoning cop movie sub-genre, from our Spring 1974 issue.

"Coogan's Bluff" is a retelling of one of the oldest American themes: the unspoiled country boy comes to the big city and tests his frontier values against corruption of civilization. This time the hero is a strong, silent deputy sheriff from Arizona, dispatched to New York City to extradite a killer. He runs afoul of big-city criminals and gets tangled up in laws which say an Arizona deputy can't act like a New York cop -- not in New York, anyway.

Though Gordon Douglas’ 1954 monster movie Them! tells a far more quiet, intimate story than its modern descendants, one of the first ways it clues

Them! Though Gordon Douglas’ 1954 monster movie Them! tells a far more quiet, intimate story than its modern descendants, one of the first ways it clues you in to the danger its human heroes are in is a haunting, piercing noise that calls out from the wilderness. Advertisement When sergeant Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) and army soldier Ed Blackburn (Chris Drake) stumble upon a little girl (Sandy Descher) wandering around the New Mexico desert alone, the men can tell from the child’s catat...