Dr. Caligari's cabinet is now so crammed that he had to stow stuff in the Cupboard. Time may wound all heels but once in a while you need a cup of tea.
Thursday, October 22, 2026
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (508)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Preview starring Porky Pig , directed by Tex Avery.
This is the last Porky Pig cartoon Tex Avery directed, alongside his last black-and-white Looney Tunes cartoon he directed.
As we often do, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour likes to check out the web site Letters Live, to share with you fun clips to watch. Today, Morpheus give us a prescient warning about the upcoming robot revolution -
Laurence Fishburne has to appear in more movies,
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1995 crime thriller, Heat, directed by Michael Mann and starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Jon Voight, and Val Kilmer.
This was first film to feature Robert De Niro and Al Pacino acting together, which created much hype prior to release. They both starred in The Godfather Part II , but never appeared in a scene together due to the split chronology. The only moment they appear in the same frame is during a dissolve between scenes. When Heat was finally released, even its advertising material promoted the film as a De Niro and Pacino "showdown".
The meeting between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino over coffee was shot at Kate Mantilini on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. The Los Angeles mainstay was a noted top spot for a stylish late supper. Following the movie release, the restaurant had "heat" written in neon lights above the door and a large poster of the actors in the now famous scene. Diners could request the very table featured in the scene, table #71, which wait staff were familiar with as "The Table", and were happy to seat De Niro and Pacino fans at their famous meeting place. The restaurant closed in late 2014.
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this gripping flix: Heat.
In an interview, Al Pacino revealed that for the scene in the restaurant between Hanna and McCauley, Robert De Niro felt that the scene should not be rehearsed so that the unfamiliarity between the two characters would seem more genuine. Michael Mann agreed, and shot the scene with no practice rehearsals. According to some sources, it still took 11 takes before Mann was satisfied.
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Preview starring Porky Pig , directed by Tex Avery.
This is the last Porky Pig cartoon Tex Avery directed, alongside his last black-and-white Looney Tunes cartoon he directed.
As we often do, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour likes to check out the web site Letters Live, to share with you fun clips to watch. Today, Morpheus give us a prescient warning about the upcoming robot revolution -
Laurence Fishburne has to appear in more movies,
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1995 crime thriller, Heat, directed by Michael Mann and starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Jon Voight, and Val Kilmer.
This was first film to feature Robert De Niro and Al Pacino acting together, which created much hype prior to release. They both starred in The Godfather Part II , but never appeared in a scene together due to the split chronology. The only moment they appear in the same frame is during a dissolve between scenes. When Heat was finally released, even its advertising material promoted the film as a De Niro and Pacino "showdown".
The meeting between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino over coffee was shot at Kate Mantilini on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. The Los Angeles mainstay was a noted top spot for a stylish late supper. Following the movie release, the restaurant had "heat" written in neon lights above the door and a large poster of the actors in the now famous scene. Diners could request the very table featured in the scene, table #71, which wait staff were familiar with as "The Table", and were happy to seat De Niro and Pacino fans at their famous meeting place. The restaurant closed in late 2014.
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this gripping flix: Heat.
In an interview, Al Pacino revealed that for the scene in the restaurant between Hanna and McCauley, Robert De Niro felt that the scene should not be rehearsed so that the unfamiliarity between the two characters would seem more genuine. Michael Mann agreed, and shot the scene with no practice rehearsals. According to some sources, it still took 11 takes before Mann was satisfied.
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
Friday, October 16, 2026
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Saturday, October 10, 2026
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (507)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Bear Facts starring Porky Pig , directed by Friz Freleng.
As the Bear is desperately looking for food in his place during the winter, he opens one cupboard that reveals a spiderweb with a note, "Now you know how I felt! Mother Hubbard." This is referencing that famous line of that rhyme, "When she got there, the cupboard was bare."
Long time viewer of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour know we love Nathan Lane - great actor and best panelist on a late night show. We keep seeing clips of this in our feed, so we thought why not watch the entire show. -
Nathan Lane can even make Ina Garten tolerable.
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1995 dark drama, Safe, directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley, and James LeGros.
Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After doctors see she can give her no clear diagnosis. she starts to believe that she has extreme environmental allergies.
Safe works on several levels - as a clear commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social disengagement, and a horror movie about the unseen.
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this prescient drama: Safe.
Multiple chemical sensitivity is an unrecognized and controversial diagnosis characterized by chronic symptoms attributed to exposure to low levels of commonly used chemicals. Symptoms are typically vague and non-specific. They may include fatigue, headaches, nausea, and dizziness. Although these symptoms can be debilitating, MCS is not recognized as an organic, chemical-caused illness by the World Health Organization, American Medical Association, nor any of several other professional medical organizations. Blinded clinical trials show that people with MCS react as often and as strongly to placebos as they do to chemical stimuli; the existence and severity of symptoms is seemingly related to perception that a chemical stimulus is present. Commonly attributed substances include scented products (e.g. perfumes), pesticides, plastics, synthetic fabrics, smoke, petroleum products, and paint fumes.
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Bear Facts starring Porky Pig , directed by Friz Freleng.
As the Bear is desperately looking for food in his place during the winter, he opens one cupboard that reveals a spiderweb with a note, "Now you know how I felt! Mother Hubbard." This is referencing that famous line of that rhyme, "When she got there, the cupboard was bare."
Long time viewer of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour know we love Nathan Lane - great actor and best panelist on a late night show. We keep seeing clips of this in our feed, so we thought why not watch the entire show. -
Nathan Lane can even make Ina Garten tolerable.
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1995 dark drama, Safe, directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley, and James LeGros.
Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After doctors see she can give her no clear diagnosis. she starts to believe that she has extreme environmental allergies.
Safe works on several levels - as a clear commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social disengagement, and a horror movie about the unseen.
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this prescient drama: Safe.
Multiple chemical sensitivity is an unrecognized and controversial diagnosis characterized by chronic symptoms attributed to exposure to low levels of commonly used chemicals. Symptoms are typically vague and non-specific. They may include fatigue, headaches, nausea, and dizziness. Although these symptoms can be debilitating, MCS is not recognized as an organic, chemical-caused illness by the World Health Organization, American Medical Association, nor any of several other professional medical organizations. Blinded clinical trials show that people with MCS react as often and as strongly to placebos as they do to chemical stimuli; the existence and severity of symptoms is seemingly related to perception that a chemical stimulus is present. Commonly attributed substances include scented products (e.g. perfumes), pesticides, plastics, synthetic fabrics, smoke, petroleum products, and paint fumes.
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
Friday, October 9, 2026
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Vuvuzela —
- a long, plastic horn that makes a loud, monotone sound, typically blown by South African fans at soccer matches
Demand Euphoria!
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Saturday, October 3, 2026
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (506)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Snooze Reel starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett and Norman McCabe.
This was the one of two cartoons that credited both Bob Clampett and Norman McCabe as directors (the other one being The Timid Toreador a year before). Norm finished both cartoons while Bob was ill during production.
We have a great waste of time here The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour = we love to put clips of the British quiz show QI on the background while we work. It's a fun show and we actually learn something ever now and then. One of our favorite guest from the show is Gyles Brandreth We came upon this show where is is a guest and we thought you'd like to watch it with us -
Mr. Brandreth is funny as hell and he can barely be contained
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1995 dark comedy, Underground, directed by Emir Kusturica and starring Miki Manojlovi, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovi, and Slavko Å timac.
The plot concerns two Serbian rapscallions, Marko and Blacky, who run guns through Belgrade to fight the occupying Nazis but seem more interested in spending their profits on debauchery. When a love triangle threatens their friendship, however, the slippery Marko hatches a plot that tricks Blacky and a large portion of their friends into hiding in a large underground bunker for years, long after the war has ended. Meanwhile, Marko maintains a charade that they are still fighting Nazis above ground.
Emir Kusturica’s original cut ran for 320 minutes, about the same length as the six part serialized television version released later. Kusturica stated in interviews that his co-producers forced edits on the theatrical release.
Underground won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.The film was selected as the Serbian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Despite its international success, Underground was controversial nearer to home. Kusturica was accused of taking money from the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation, which would have been a violation of sanctions against the Serbian government. (The director countered that he had only accepted non-financial assistance, and won a lawsuit for libel against a playwright who accused him of taking money from the Serbs.) The film was also criticized for being too conciliatory by not blaming Serbia and Slobodan MiloÅ¡evi’s regime directly for the Bosnian conflict. (Kusturica himself is ethnically Bosnian).
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this absurd political comedy: Underground.
Director Emir Kusturica revealed that making the film had a profound psychological impact on him. He became severely depressed and even contemplated suicide after becoming too deeply immersed in "the substance of the story and the humanity."
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Snooze Reel starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett and Norman McCabe.
This was the one of two cartoons that credited both Bob Clampett and Norman McCabe as directors (the other one being The Timid Toreador a year before). Norm finished both cartoons while Bob was ill during production.
We have a great waste of time here The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour = we love to put clips of the British quiz show QI on the background while we work. It's a fun show and we actually learn something ever now and then. One of our favorite guest from the show is Gyles Brandreth We came upon this show where is is a guest and we thought you'd like to watch it with us -
Mr. Brandreth is funny as hell and he can barely be contained
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1995 dark comedy, Underground, directed by Emir Kusturica and starring Miki Manojlovi, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovi, and Slavko Å timac.
The plot concerns two Serbian rapscallions, Marko and Blacky, who run guns through Belgrade to fight the occupying Nazis but seem more interested in spending their profits on debauchery. When a love triangle threatens their friendship, however, the slippery Marko hatches a plot that tricks Blacky and a large portion of their friends into hiding in a large underground bunker for years, long after the war has ended. Meanwhile, Marko maintains a charade that they are still fighting Nazis above ground.
Emir Kusturica’s original cut ran for 320 minutes, about the same length as the six part serialized television version released later. Kusturica stated in interviews that his co-producers forced edits on the theatrical release.
Underground won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.The film was selected as the Serbian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Despite its international success, Underground was controversial nearer to home. Kusturica was accused of taking money from the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation, which would have been a violation of sanctions against the Serbian government. (The director countered that he had only accepted non-financial assistance, and won a lawsuit for libel against a playwright who accused him of taking money from the Serbs.) The film was also criticized for being too conciliatory by not blaming Serbia and Slobodan MiloÅ¡evi’s regime directly for the Bosnian conflict. (Kusturica himself is ethnically Bosnian).
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this absurd political comedy: Underground.
Director Emir Kusturica revealed that making the film had a profound psychological impact on him. He became severely depressed and even contemplated suicide after becoming too deeply immersed in "the substance of the story and the humanity."
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
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