An oddity in the Keanucopia this week, as Keanu plays second fiddle to Thomas 'The Punisher' Jane in an adaptation of Neil Cassidy's epic letter to Jack Kerouac that helped kick off the Beat generation. Virtually no-one saw this film and, on the surface, it's not hard to see why. But there is plenty to chew on, admire and enjoy here, not least an excellent - if scummy - performance from Keanu.

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After playing such a crucial role in the unfolding Tom Cruise shared universe, Cameron Diaz steps into the timeline once more to tie the Keanucopia to the Cruisiverse. Alongside her is Keanu - giving one of his most grounded performances to date - and the always exciting Vincent D'Onofrio and Delroy Lindo. The film itself has issues as well as surprises, but it led the Arniethology lads to reconsider Keanu's status as a movie star and actor and, for that alone, things in the Keanucopia may never be the same again...

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A mighty dollop of nostalgia this week as Alex and Ben reminisce about the time in their lives that they became cine-literate, as they travel back to 1996, a year that gave us Heat, Seven, Mission: Impossible and this week's Keanu offering, Chain Reaction. The definition of average, this is a mixed bag as the director's follow up to The Fugitive, so it's perhaps not a surprise that a massive detour into "pet peeve movie cliches" grabs their attention for a few minutes...

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There's a new Bill and Ted film out there - Bill and Ted Face the Music - and Ben and Alex have some thoughts on it.

Don't worry if you haven't seen it yet, these are non-spoiler thoughts just to give an idea of whether we enjoyed it.

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Keanu returns to period romance with the gentle, warm drama A Walk in the Clouds, a film neither Alex nor Ben have seen before. Given that Speed is the runaway winner of the Keanucopia rankings to date, will a soft hug of a film such as this - never mind one that's selling an idea of fate that appeals to neither of them - have much to offer? Well, the answer, as they say, may surprise you...

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After the giddy highs of Speed, it's back down to earth with a bump for the oddly televisual techno-thriller, Johnny Mnemonic. Not just Keanu's first foray into sci-fi, but an early adaptation of father of cyberpunk, William Gibson. All the elements were here for something special, but it seems they gave it to the wrong director. There's still fun to be had though. Not least in some of the wild overacting on display...

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The most hotly anticipated entry to the Keanucopia so far is here: 1994's action classic, Speed. As well as a bus that can't slow down, we get a new kind of Keanu (in only his second action lead role), his first collaboration with Sandra Bullock, a snarling psycho role for Dennis Hopper and Die-Hard-influenced cinematography, staging and editing from Jan De Bont. Alex and Ben both love this film, but not without some reservations. When all the pros and cons are tallied, can this land the top spot in the Keanucopia to date? And yes, there's a brief chat about the ill-fated sequel as well. Music is Black Fly by Audionautix. Get in touch here: [email protected]

The most hotly anticipated entry to the Keanucopia so far is here: 1994's action classic, Speed. As well as a bus that can't slow down, we get a new kind of Keanu (in only his second action lead role), his first collaboration with Sandra Bullock, a snarling psycho role for Dennis Hopper and Die Hard-influenced cinematography, staging and editing from Jan De Bont.

Alex and Ben both love this film, but not without some reservations. When all the pros and cons are tallied, can this land the top spot in the Keanucopia to date?

And yes, there's a brief chat about the ill-fated sequel as well.

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Keanu takes on arguably his biggest challenge yet, playing Siddartha Gautama, the buddha himself. Is he up to the task? Ben and Alex have some thoughts, naturally, and are unafraid to get side-tracked into a brief discussion about Kevin Costner's The Postman along the way. Really.

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Gus Van Sant makes another appearance on the Keanucopia, as his My Own Private Idaho collective join forces with Uma Thurman in the strange, quirky road trip that is Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.

First up, Ben and Alex are catching up with some of the recent changes affecting upcoming movies, including the imminent arrival of Bill and Ted Face The Music. Then they try and pick apart exactly what Van Sant was going for here - an even more free-wheeling and star-studded endeavour than Idaho was, but this time with a plainly comedic streak, as Uma Thurman plays a model with the world's biggest thumbs...

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