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Writer-director Harmony Korine has repeatedly stuck two fingers up to the cosy conventions of mainstream film-making. While his deranged body of work might not always be coherent or emotionally ...

Four high-school girlfriends head off for a sex’n’booze’n’substance-fuelled spring break to Florida. After a stint in jail they are bailed by self-obsessed drug dealer Alien (Franco) who wants them ...

Writer-director Harmony Korine (Mister Lonely) is expected to bring us one of the most unique films of the year in the form of Spring Breakers. Its uniqueness is expected in large part because it has ...

Harmony Korine has been polarising audiences from the time they were first introduced to his dark vision of American teenagers in his script for director Larry Clark’s acclaimed Kids (1995) . His ...

Spring Breakers was everything it promised to be from its trailers, for better and worse. A sinister and pretentious reflection on the "Spring Break attitude" masquerading as monotonous debauchery, it ...

We descend. Harmony Korine’s much-hyped Spring Breakers, a hangover gesturing feebly towards satire, starts with aggressively cut images of buff American dudes expelling beer over the sun-kissed ...

Pitched somewhere between art installation, sexploitation and MTV Pool Party Gone Bad, Spring Breakers wears its controversy on its fluorescent thong — an abstract, deliberately monotonous extreme ...