Baby, it's cold outside—go see a movie, why dontcha? Werewolves, comic books and hot girls who prowl the streets of Bucharest in high heel boots should be the stuff of great geek cinema. Unfortunately, Blood and Chocolate, a new movie starring Agnes Bruckner as a werewolf girl trying to get along with the pack is utterly laughable. And not even in a good, kitchy, throw popcorn at the screen and giggle with your friends sort......

MOVIE: In their ongoing series about The Next Generation of Film, the Film Society at Lincoln Center has been bringing award winning filmmakers to the Upper West Side to discuss the behind the scenes of their work. This newest installment features Ben Affleck, the Oscar winner who seems to be on the road back from being a celeb couple punch line with his work in the recent film, Hollywoodland. Affleck will be screening this movie......

You know it's the fall movie season because it's all about actors and their performances. In the noir-lite period film, Hollywoodland, Oscar-winner Adrien Brody plays a LA two-bit gumshoe hired to investigate the mysterious death of actor George Reeves. What makes this movie worth a viewing is the strong acting by the whole cast. Ben Affleck as Reeves, a TV actor who always wanted to be more than his Superman persona, gives a performance that......

Gawker is launching their new map feature today. It's a pretty simple concept: each day they'll have an intern manning an email address, and as "Gawker Stalker" missives come in, the intern will plot them on a map. This way, you can stalk your favorite celebrities in real time. Why you would want to stalk Lindsay Lohan is beyond us-- but that's an entirely different story. The new map feature brings up some obvious......

So, Boston native Matt Damon got married to his fiance, Miami resident Luciana Bozan, on Friday morning at City Hall - and Mayor Bloomberg was present. Damon and Bozan were able to bypass the Municipal Building wedding. We thought, "Why would Mayor Bloomberg attend the wedding?" Is it because Damon is filming a movie in NYC? Or because Damon is from Boston, the Mayor's original haunt? Or, perhaps, it's a returned favor, after Damon attended......

Tomorrow 24 Prince is hoping to jump into the seriously choppy waters where La Esquina and most recently The Back Room ( covered by the Times over the weekend) started: the hidden bar. Today, Thrillist, the Daily Candy for guys' guys, reports that the bar will actually coax you into drinking. Superhero style. -The liquor cabinets will be thrown open and the wine bottles -- starting at $22 -- will start flying off the shelves......

In the spirit of this weekend's Yankees-Red Sox series, Gothamist suggests you go to the First Street Gallery in Chelsea to visit sculptor Daniel Edwards's death masks of Ted Williams. The Baseball Hall of Fame Red Sox legend who batted .406 in the 1941 season became more famous in his after life when it turned out his head had been cut off when he was cryogenically frozen. Edwards had spent time with Williams (while he......

Hello, nurse: It's the Age of Fey and Poehler, as they are the first all-female Weekend Update team on Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon had a nice chemistry - you know, sharp, caustic and riffing on how Jimmy was stupid and pretty and Tina was slutty and angry - but we were feeling Fallon Fatigue, as he couldn't really keep his shizzle together during skits, especially ones with Horatio Sanz. So......

The pundits are talking about how Senator Kerry seemed "presidential" and how President Bush only had thirty minutes of material, as the respective presidential aides are trying to spin that their candidate won the debate. Our thoughts: John Kerry was solid, strong and articulate, even if he's kind of a bore, while President Bush, though very approachable, unraveled towards the end - he was Pausey McPausepants. Not that everyone can be a smooth talker,......

While watching Square Pegs, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, LA Story, or Sex and the City, you might have thought, "You know, I could probably get along with Sarah Jessica Parker if we were friends." Here's your chance to find out: Godiva is sponsoring a Celebrity Dinner Auction with different celebrities in different cities to benefit different charities. If you bid on dinner for eight with Sarah Jessica Parker, the money goes to UNICEF and......

Buboo Kakati, Filmmaker...

Gothamist hasn't picked up a Rolling Stone magazine in a long time, we know what we like and we know we aren't likely to find it in this music rag. That's okay though, because Rolling Stone has always pretty much been a snapshot of what the mainstream is listening to right now, and we appreciate that. We read magazines like Resonance for articles on bands we listen to, topics that interest us and foresight into......

Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez are going to be starring in a film together, about a "white female swing band that joins forces with a group of black and Hispanic musicians at a time when women were ostracized from playing male-dominated clubs. Those sex barriers shattered soon after President Roosevelt declared war on Japan and the women suddenly played the hottest clubs and even squared off against the Count Basie orchestra at the Apollo Theater."......

Damnit, we'd been so looking forward to a Bennifer wedding and divorce; now we have nothing! Gothamist thinks Ben Affleck deserves another Oscar for playing the dumpee so well, going to the casino till 5AM and looking crappy. Plus allowing Jennifer Lopez to take the credit for ending the relationship - now that's classy. We'd been hearing that he wanted to dump her for a while (we don't have real inside sources, but we do......

Watch out, Canucks (and Canadiens and Mapleleafs): Conan is coming to Toronto. Conceived by SNL producer and Canadian citizen, Lorne Michaels, Late Night will be filmed in Toronto February 10 to 13. Conan told reporters, "I want to announce now that if this week goes well in Toronto we are moving the show permanently to Winnipeg." When asked about what guests would appear, he said it would be "premature and foolish" to speculate, but guessed......

Ben Affleck called up Howard Stern yesterday, to proclaim his love for Jennifer Lopez. Why? Stern laid down the gauntlet to get celebrities he's been ridiculing to give 5 minute interviews, and in turn, his radio station, KROCK will donate $10,000 of the charity of their choice. According to the Daily News, B.Aff said he still wanted to marry J.Lo and said that she was an "extraordinary" lover. Plus he "deflected questions about his hair......

Madonna says that Jennifer Lopez is trying too hard to get media attention and that's what doomed her relationship with Ben Affleck. "Ultimately, if you’ve a strong relationship — and there’s understanding of what a committed marriage is — I don’t think that having a lot of media attention can break it up. To a certain extent, they courted the media attention. At the end of the day I feel like that’s their job,......

P. Diddy managed to make good on his desire to complete the ING NYC Marathon in under 4 hours yesterday. An impressive job, considering that he has only been training for eight weeks (people train for months, if not a year) and the Times reports that his legs seized at mile 12 and that his sports physician says "he's hurting right now" (but he made his post-marathon press conference, of course). Also in the......

Although Mayor Bloomberg and his administration might claim the formation of the New York City Latin Media & Entertainment Commission is to attract Latin media & entertainment opportunities to NY, Gothamist knows better: - Mayor Bloomberg has "wanted to have J.Lo" for a while - Huge Hispanic voting bloc needed in order to win re-election And Mayor Bloomberg got his moment with Jennifer Lopez as he named her honorary chairwoman of the commission. Bless......

Ben Affleck pimps L'Oreal's Elvive hair goop in a British commercial that he rather not have his American fan base see, lest they think he's even more of a poncey jerk, but thanks to iFilm, you can watch it here. He spends his time making out with a girl, so he doesn't seem like that much a loser, but haha, Ben, we know the truth! [Via Jeannette Wells] The National Enquirer reported he was paid......

There's a fantastic article about the making of Dazed and Confused in Texas Monthly (which is our favorite Texas periodical ever...we think it's maybe the only one ever, too). Writer John Spong interviews writer-director Richard Linklater and many of the stars of the film (notably absent are the two biggest stars, Ben Affleck and Renee Zellweger) for thoughts about how the film was conceived, the filming itself, and the past ten years since it opened......

MSNBC's Scoop columnist Jeannette Wells would like to bring to attention the male celebrity slut, namely Ben Affleck (Gwyneth reportedly said Ben Affleck's ideal woman would be a stripper with a beer in each hand), Colin Farrell (so true, every other statement he makes is about doing this girl or that girl - or getting drunk - and sadly, Gothamist loves him for it), Jude Law, Justin Timberlake, and Carson Daly. (We'd like to add......

Jennifer Lopez is suing her former manager Benny Medina for "mismanaging" her career - mainly misappropriating fees and funds. Medina "intermingles assets of himself and his alter egos for his convenience" according to her suit. Alter egos? She's Jenny, Jennifer Lopez, J.Lo... There's no word on whether or not "making me get engaged to Ben Affleck" is part of the lawsuit, you know, that tactical move that catapulted her into super stardom, whether we like......

The Times technology section does a feature on message boards where high schoolers dish about other students and teachers. Schools are wondering what they can do (also worrying about legal ramifications for boards run off of school sites) as Some say the reach of the Web magnifies the potential harm far beyond anything heard at school. "In middle school and early high school, people are not able to discriminate what is real and what......

Oscar Commentary
Oscar is celebrating its 75th anniversary, I'm celebrating my 25th anniversary of watching Oscar....

I'm not a huge fan of Gwyneth, but I do love Chris Martin of Coldplay. The Sun claims they are engaged and that Steven Spielberg will give her away. Certainly, in competing with Ben Affleck over the cooler musician (possible) fiance(e), it's hard to say who wins: Chris Martin is scads more talented than J.Lo, but J.Lo is J.Lo. I guess Gwyneth wins, because it's not like she's that overshadowed by Chris Martin.......

Okay, I am very fond of celebrity news and gossip, but the people (mainly New York women, natch) in this article about the mutual J.Lo obssession by media and public made me embarrassed. But why is it so interesting? A professor of media studies at NYU posits that it's because J.Lo is a "Woman in Control" - with "the entrepreneurial fantasy she lives that makes her such a star." The Horatio Alger of our celebrity......

Two-fer Thursday.... Madonna in the James Bond picture and photo of Ben Affleck groping J. Lo's bottom. The Sun Newspaper Online - UK's biggest selling newspaper......