  Saint Seiya Omega - Episode 67 - Subaru's Terrifying Cosmo! Eden's Task! Aug 7th 2013, 19:00 
The Titans send the class-2 Pallasite Europa to stop the advancing Koga. On his way, Europa encounters Eden, who has been led to the battlefield by a mysterious power. Seiya appears between them, and fearing the power of the gold saint, Europa flees. Seiya tells a doubting Eden to find his own answer to why he fights. And then Europa attacks Koga hoping to defeat the remaining bronzes!
 | | The Act of Killing – Review Aug 7th 2013, 00:04 
In Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing,” a pair of gangsters who were responsible for murdering an untold number of suspected communists in the years following the 1965 overthrow of the Indonesian government get the chance to recount their experiences. At first showing no visible remorse, the men boast of their achievements, and Oppenheimer capitalizes on their enthusiasm with a twisted gimmick: The men are given numerous opportunities to reenact the murders for Oppenheimer’s camera, sometimes emphasizing their brutality and occasionally delivering surreal, flamboyant takes that offer a grotesque spin on classic Hollywood musicals. Playing make believe with murderers, Oppenheimer risks the possibility of empowering them. However, by humanizing psychopathic behavior, “The Act of Killing” is unparalleled in its unsettling perspective on the dementia’s associated with dictatorial extremes. Oppenheimer’s main focus is a lean man named Anwar Congo, one of several former members of the Indonesian paramilitary organization Pancasila Youth. Drawing from American movie clichés for his image as a menacing bad guy, Congo and one of his colleagues indulge Oppenheimer with stories of their murderous achievements while also complaining about the perception they face from the rest of the world. It’s unique story telling has successfully made important people, including current parliament members, admitting brutality, killing and on-going premanism (thuggery) that’s clearly supported by the government, also in their own words, to the camera. Director Joshua Oppenheimer approached the ex-algojo, Anwar Congo and his buddies, to play in a silly movie, even in woman’s dress, without knowing that the real movie is actually the everyday conversation where he was proudly telling n showing what he has done in 65. The government assigned military and preman to support the coup-de-tat, raping and killing many innocents in the name of anti-PKI. The movie’s honest, satire and unprovocative documentation has ironically made us laugh and cry at the same time. Reality does bite: people do what they think is right, and make it right for them, no matter how wrong it is. Why? Because history is written by the winners. All Indonesian production team remain anonymous and the movie is not publicly distributed in Indonesia. 
I have never been as completely chilled by a film in my life, and I have seen plenty of brutal documentaries. The atrocities committed by the Indonesian death squads, and so vividly re-enacted, are not easy to watch and I expect that many people would rather just turn away and ignore them, but you owe it to yourselves to sit through them. I have just finished reading Steven Pinker’s excellent book The Better Angels of Our Nature in which he argues that humanity is far less violent now than we have ever been. That may be so, but if you are looking for a compelling counter-argument you can start with this film. I can assure that that you will never forget it. If you do choose to witness it however, you will gain something valuable from the experience. This film was made to give voice to victims and it does this in spades. It was made to right wrongs, and as a testament. For this reason, it is worth your time to watch it and to learn from it.I don’t want to talk too much about any specific content, as it really speaks for itself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5oMxbMcHM Welcome to sinister conundrums and lack of accountability 101; where post modernity has brought us. Welcome to an amazing Doco that shows us this stark reality, transplanted to Indonesia. Imagine these days, hopefully less people (than at any other point in history) would accept an official criticism of Indonesia from the International Community. Suffice it to say that in terms of content this is NOT entertainment and is NOT suitable for everybody as upsetting scenes are thematically unavoidable. The filmmaker only occasionally speaks up from behind the camera to remind his subject that, no matter how unsettled their crimes have left them, the experience was infinitely worse for their victims. At 115 minutes, “The Act of Killing” is a frequently devastating experience that smothers viewers with a one-sided point of view given the power to run wild. A large-scale reenactment of mass murder, replete with crying children and homes ablaze, seems real enough to make it evident that the gangsters would feel comfortable committing the same murders all over again.
 | | Eureka 7: Astral Ocean – Review Aug 7th 2013, 00:02 
I’m sure you already know all the superlatives – the mecha, the animation and design, the world, the characters, pacing, story – it all works extremely well, and it certainly left room for a sequel. So imagine my horror when I discovered that they decided to change everything for Astral Ocean. All of a sudden it’s 2050. All of a sudden we are just on good old near-future Earth with Americans and Japanese and… No Eureka or Renton. Astral Ocean focuses on Ao, the son of Eureka and Renton. He is raised in Okinawa, Japan, on an Earth very different from the one we experienced in the original Eureka Seven. However, Eureka left him while he was still young, and Renton was never anywhere in sight. He accidentally comes into contact with a machine named the Mark-1, which is actually the Nirvash Eureka piloted long ago, that has been unable to be piloted until now. After a couple complications, Ao is recruited to pilot Nirvash for a company, named Generation Blue, to fight alien lifeforms known as G-monsters/Secrets. At this point in the story, its confirmed that Ao is none other than Eureka's and Renton's half-human, half-Corelian love child. Using the resources provided to him, the young man hopes to find the answers surrounding his mother's disappearance ten years prior to the show's start while protecting the defenseless from further attacks. The tensions escalate when an immensely powerful, and equally mysterious, humanoid entity calling himself Truth makes his move. With seemingly no real allegiance to anyone or anything besides his own twisted self, he makes a heap of messes for the heroes to clean up, meanwhile strengthening Ao's yearning to know the truth behind everything. Additionally, Ao's childhood friend and love interest, gets dragged into the battle between the Scub, Secrets and mankind as a byproduct of his vague ambitions. It was at this point that the show began to gain some seriously needed momentum, but like a double-edged sword, along with that intensity came AO's biggest blunders. As I've said before, just as there's nothing wrong with having a really simple narrative, the same can be said for having a detail-heavy one. It's all about how you approach the matter; execution is key. 
However I may feel about the story, I was certainly glad to see the sky-surfing glamour of mech battles in Astral Ocean. The series, overall, has always been visually appealing to me as far as non-space mecha go. They were really on to something here. AO manages to be completely fresh yet entirely familiar; it references E7 without directly copying it and it sets out to do more than just linearly continue the story told in E7. was one of the best main characters of the year, the music was excellent and while there were some inconsistences in the visuals, it delivered some glorious hand-drawn mecha animation in a way we rarely see it in this day and age. I'm very glad that the only opinion that matters when it comes to art is our own, and mine is this: Astral Ocean is one of my favorite series of 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zwNzI9iU3U On the first TV series: quick point about Renton. Renton & Eureka are Shinji & Rei given a chance. But you get to watch Renton grow. The early parts of the series he is a whiny crybaby, but you would be to (if you weren’t a shell of a person) given his situation. But he keeps fighting and goes through one of the most thorough character progressions ever put into an anime. The most hilarious of them is Holland and Renton realizing that they’ve taken on something of a Father/Son relationship and how much they butt heads. A lot of the problem with watching Eureka 7 comes down to our expectation of character stagnation. The entire cast progresses over the course of the series. Episode 49 Renton is almost completely unlike episode 1 Renton, yet it’s still Renton. The character has progressed, grown and gone through hell and back, yet he comes out a Man at the other side. Also, I know it’s really hard getting from around 19 through 24, but you have to get to the Charles & Ray arc. It’s possibly one of the best written story arcs you’ll ever come across. It’s worth the trouble to get there. While it might be the high point of the storytelling in the series, the rest is still quite good. Especially once the World Story kicks in high-gear.
 | | Behind the Smoke - Dai Yoshihara Formula Drift 2011/2012 Season - Episode 75 - Putting It On The Line In Seattle - Formula Drift Rd 5 - Daijiro Yoshihara - Behind The Smoke 3 - Ep17 Aug 6th 2013, 02:21 
Having qualified 14th, Daijiro and team face Robbie "Bushido Blade" Nishida in Top 32. With Dai's season not going to plan, will he be able to overcome his obstacles and reach the podium of Formula Drift Round 5: Seattle? Watch and find out! That is an order! Behind the Smoke Season 3 (BTS3) is a web reality series about 2011 Formula Drift Champion Daijiro Yoshihara. The cameras capture Dai and his team on and off the tracks. BTS3 is produced by GTChannel in association with Discount Tire/America's Tire. GTChannel is a CAR.VIDEO.NETWORK on YouTube with over 15 Million monthly views and 100 partner channels. Music: "Structural Fault" by Structural Fault Available at Jamendo.com Go to our http://www.youtube.com/gtchannel channel to check out our videos and partner channels.
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