Over nearly two decades and three shows, Jared Padalecki has been one of the faces of The CW.  But that doesn’t mean the actor likes where the network is headed.  IndieWire (via Variety) reports that Padalecki didn’t hold back about The CW’s future after the network canceled his latest series, “Walker.” In his eyes, its shift to “easy, cheap content” over shows like “Gilmore Girls” and “Supernatural” that gave Padalecki a career will be a downfall.

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And perhaps it begs the question: is this what happens when you’re stuck in director’s jail? Cox’s career kicked off rather excellently with the aforementioned cult-film classic (and he went on to have a seriously good ’80s run including “Sid & Nancy” (’86), “Straight to Hell” (’87) starring The Clash’s Joe Strummer, and the less-successful, but still-celebrated “Walker” (’87, which the Criterion Collection retroactively minted a few years ago).

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The achingly tasteful DVD revival company is constantly releasing fantastic masterworks for budding and longtime cinephiles, but their recent batch of announcements for February 2008 have really caught our eye.

First off is Jean-Luc Godard’s vibrantly colorful tenth feature, “Pierrot le Fou” (Peter The Madman), released between “Alphaville” and “Masculin, féminin,” in his 1965 peak, that’s a lovers on the run road story not unlike his classic, “Breathless” (albeit contemporized with technicolor splashes).

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