Softcore Reviews

I can’t think of another director as intimately identified with the female ass as Tinto Brass. There’s ‘ass’ is in his name, for chrissakes. He rhymes with his own obsession! All Ladies Do It (Cosi Fan Tutte) features plenty of ass, and everything else too, shot in the inimitable Tinto Brass way, from as many revealing angles as possible…

Wow, for at least the first 10 minutes of this movie I thought I was watching an old 70’s flick that had been found in someone’s attic or basement and restored for DVD. But then I realized—holy crap, this is new. The set design and attention to vintage detail in this movie is nothing short of incredible. If it’s 70’s era camp you want, it’s 70’s era camp you shall have. And boy, if Viva is anything, it is pure unadulterated camp.

Tinto Brass may be best known in North America as the director of the doomed and often chided Penthouse epic, Caligula, but over in Europe he is recognized as one of the leading directors of high-quality erotica. The Italian maestro has once again stretched the limits of softcore with his most recent release Trasgredire…