Twenty years after the original “Trainspotting” premiered, director Danny Boyle has reassembled the original cast for a sequel, “T2: Trainspotting.” The first teaser, which dropped Monday morning, ...
Twenty-one years later, and the “Trainspotting” boys are alive and well. And just as ill as ever. When we last saw them, Renton and his pals — Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie — had just cleared $20,000 in a ...
“It’s certainly a phenomenon in all walks of life,” “Sick Boy,” a.k.a. Simon (Johnny Lee Miller) explains to his friend Mark (Ewan McGregor) in Danny Boyle’s 1996 film Trainspotting. “At one time ...
That last bit might be a shock for fans of director Danny Boyle's original drug and alcohol-fuelled thrill ride through Scotland's dingiest back alleys, but it's a sober reinvention that forms the ...
More than 20 years after the release of the original film about a band of thieving Scottish junkies, Boyle returns to the same characters. Critic David Edelstein calls the new film "tremendous fun." ...
At the end of 1996's Trainspotting, heroin addict Mark Renton ditched his friends and walked away with the $20,000 take from their drug-deal score. Twenty-one years later, Renton (played by Ewan ...
Twenty-one years on, and it looks like the Trainspotting gang are still up to their same old tricks. The first official look at T2, Danny Boyle's follow-up to the cult classic, is here. But mind, it ...
This is FRESH AIR. It's been a little more than 20 years since the release of "Trainspotting," Danny Boyle's black comedy adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel about a band of thieving 20-something ...