The release of Trainspotting in 1996 was a defining moment for Gen Xers like me: a mixture of Adidas cool, indie pop and ...

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Oscar winning director of Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle, directs the new movie, T2 Trainspotting with the original cast of the 1996 film. The sequel takes a look at these characters' lives 20 years ...

Something happened at my midnight public screening in London of Danny Boyle’s sequel to his 1996 smash. A heckler at the back, perhaps influenced by alcohol or the fact that he had been ground down by ...

Renton. Sick Boy. Spud. Begbie. Their names are as iconic as the image of the Scottish lads from “Trainspotting” running away from the cops — an homage to The Beatles outpacing their fans in “A Hard ...

It is kind of mind-boggling,” Irvine Welsh is saying to me in his broad, Edinburgh-accented mutter. “I never thought it would ...

Taking its cue from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, the Edinburgh-based film took sex and drugs with humour to a mainstream level, and endlessly working those box office cash drawers with its exquisite cast ...

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, who says still enjoys spikes in sales of his 1993 novel whenever the film 1996 film adaption is aired on TV in the UK, has shared details of the musical he is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ambition is not a problem for Danny Boyle. Humility might be. The Oscar-winning director of “Slumdog Millionaire” and “28 Days Later” is known for his ...

Back in 1996, Trainspotting (adapted from Irvine Welsh’s 1993 cult novel) emerged as one of the great British films of the era, one that bristled with incendiary sense of style and danger. The daring ...