There is the oddest movie playing on Showtime this month. It's called Shadow Boxer, starring Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding, Jr. as two professional assassins.....and lovers.

Rose (Mirren) takes Mikey (Gooding) under her wing, and between her legs, after she kills Mikey's father, with whom she shared a romantic relationship.

Rose's and Mikey's professional relationship takes them into the darkest places in the underworld. Between erotic romps between the sheets, they travel the world offing people for lots of money.

At the beginning of the story, Rose has just learned she has terminal cancer. She becomes very introspective and seems to develop a conscience. She feels her cancer is God's punishment for the life she has led.

They are hired by a sadistic crime boss, played by Stephen Dorff, to kill his pregnant wife. Dorff, by the way, has this incredibly hot fuck scene, taking a slut doggie style, in some pretty hot, sweaty sex. There is a brief full frontal shot that shows a pretty big package between those legs.

Rose takes pity on the pregnant wife. Her water breaks right as Rose is about to pull the trigger. She talks Mikey into taking them away, and from then on, they are on the run, hiding the mob moll and her newborn son. That is, until Monique (yes THE Monique) drops a dime on them, and Dorff captures them.

There are many disturbing images, including several torture/execution scenes, along with any of the Helen Mirren sex scenes. I had this revulsion/attraction thing going on every time my favorite British actress was getting her pudenda pumped, her legs thrown high in the air, writhing and groaning like a cheap French whore.

I have to admit, however, that the Gooding/Mirren sex scenes were some of the most erotic I have seen in some time. I don't know if it's the May/December thing, or maybe it was the salt and pepper thing. All I know is, nothing looked hotter than Gooding's firm tight ass going up and down while he was giving it to Helen.

This is one of those "you have to be in the mood for it" movies. And, baby, I was in the mood for it tonight.