“The Birthday Cake” (**1/2 out of four) was an engagingly stylish underworld melodrama about a young man (Shiloh Fernandez) who on the 10th anniversary of his father’s death brings a birthday cake to his uncle (Val Kilmer) and the rest of his mafia family (Vincent Pastore, Paul Sorvino, and others) but it turns out to be a night that none of them will forget. Not much plot per se but told with a nicely twisted sense of macabre humor and flair and packed with so many veteran actors and familiar faces (including Lorraine Bracco and Ewan McGreggor) that it holds your attention. A lumpy recipe at times but overall satisfying and filling.