Mobflix

Movie of the week – The Shipment (Mobflix rating 2.5 stars out of 5)

Paul Rodriguez, Robert Loggia, Matthew Modine and Elizabeth Berkeley star in The Shipment. This is comedy about a hijacked shipment of drugs…. (actually Viagra). That’s right, Viagra.

In this film a shipment of Viagra gets hijacked and the Mob as well as the local sheriff(Matthew Modine) are on the trail. In addition, Matthew Modine helps a damsel in distress, Elisabeth Berkeley. This movie is pretty funny, and I kept expecting Elisabeth Berkeley to take off her clothes, but that is not to be.

The Mobsters are a bunch of bumbling idiots. Nicholas Turturro, plays a mob boss with anger management issues. His fits of anger are over the top and pretty funny.

Movie of the week – Thursday (Mobflix rating 3.5 out of 4 stars)

Casey (Thomas Jones) is your run-of-the-mill ex-drug dealer work from home Architect. It is Thursday morning when his past catches up with him. Casey’s partner Nick (Aaron Eckhart), show up with a load of heroin and Casey destroys it. While Nick is on the run, several hit people arrive at Casey’s house looking for the shipment and to eliminate Casey.

Each hit person who comes to Casey’s house has their own special and unique way of dispatching their victims. We see a Rastafarian Pizza Delivery Hit man, then there’s a specialist who prides himself in torturing his victims to death, and best of all there is the femme fatale Hitwoman who has a very special way of taking care of her victims.

Paulina Porizkova has a fantastic role as Dallas a latex clad Hitwoman who has sex with her targets before offing them. In real life, Paulina Porizkova is married to Ric Ocasek, the lead singer of the Cars. During the 1980’s, Paulina was one of the hottest international supermodels of the decade. In this film we not only see a fantastic performance from Dallas, but we also get to see her in her birthday suit as she ties up Casey and has sex with him before offing him.

There is also a great flashback scene with Casey and Nick where a coke deal goes bad.

This is one of my favorite films, I give Thursday 3.5 out of 4 stars.

Movie of the week – Bugsy Malone (Mobflix rating 4 stars out of 4)

Imagine a musical about the mob in the 1930’s during prohibition. Now imagine it has an all kid cast. In addition the kids shoot cream pie machine guns and drive pedal cars. Now add the hottest child stars of the time.

Now you have Bugsy Malone. Starring Scott Baio as the lead character and Jodie Foster as Tallulah as flapper showgirl in a speakeasy. Scott Baio is Bugsy Malone, you basic mob freelancer. Bugsy helps on of the local gangsters run illegal root beer and obtain the latest in child-mob weapon technology, the splurge gun. Before the splurge gun, whackings were done by a simple pie in the face. If you got hit with a pie, that was a sign you were whacked.

Along comes the splurge gun. This weapon is a Tommy Gun that shoot cream. Mobster gangs with these weapons roam the streets and conduct drive by hits, spraying their target with whip cream.

The cars are antique cars from the 1930’s, but they are miniaturized for kids and powered by pedaling.

The musical score composed by Paul Williams is fantastic as well. The kids singing is over-dubbed by adult singers. Remember the animated Coke commercial that looks like Grand Theft Auto? The sing a song called “Give a Little Love.” That song is from Bugsy Malone.

I cannot recommend this movie enough. Seeing Jodie Foster as a flapper girl knowing how great her career will become is really something to see.

The finale musical number is one of my all time favorites. There is a massive shoot out / pie fight in the Speak Easy that ends in the finale musical number with everyone covered in cream pies singing their hearts out.

When I am asked to recommend a movie that no one has seen before, this is the first one I tell them.

I give Bugsy Malone 4 stars out of 4