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 ...

For die-hard fans of Danny Boyle’s 1996 hit Trainspotting, the just-released sequel, T2 Trainspotting, could also be called Easter Egg Spotting. That’s because this sequel — which opened in the U.K.

Director Danny Boyle got the old troublemaking gang back together earlier this year with T2: Trainspotting, a long-in-the-making sequel to his 1996 hit about a group of junkie friends in Edinburgh, ...

Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) in "T2 Trainspotting." (Courtesy CTMG, Inc.) The iconic opening shot of director Danny Boyle’s ...

It's been more than 20 years since Danny Boyle brought the character of young Scottish junkie Mark Renton (played by Ewan McGregor) and all his friends to vivid, sometimes repulsive life in ...

The year was 1996. A little-known filmmaker from Manchester, England, named Danny Boyle, whose only cinematic calling card was the darkly comic 1994 thriller "Shallow Grave," sat down with a ...

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." ...

IN THE THROES OF HEROIN WITHdrawal, Mark Renton, the central character in Irvine Welsh's novel, ""Trainspotting,'' takes stock of his circumstances. His bones ache, his skin feels like it's on skewers ...