Twenty years ago, Danny Boyle’s adaption of Irving Welsh’s heroin chic novel “Trainspotting” opened with a young Ewan McGregor running manically through the streets of Edinburgh while Iggy Pop’s “Lust ...
Much like the question facing Disney when it was considering a remake of the 1990’s animated classic “Beauty and the Beast,” the team behind another (and very different) classic 90’s film, ...
I smoked before leaving the house. Walking to the Prospect Park Q stop, the snowy hellscape of Brooklyn became slightly more tolerable with the pleasant effects of Liberty Haze, a warm brain hum ...
The pleasure of watching “T2 Trainspotting” is different from that of other movies. The pleasure comes mostly from the director, Danny Boyle, but it’s not the pleasure of bedazzlement, of getting ...
Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller star in “T2 Trainspotting.” PHOTO COURTESY ANTHONY DOD MANTLE The original 1996 perverse comedy “Trainspotting” revealed the good, the bad and the nauseating behind ...
The iconic Scottish black comedy saga continues with the sequel to the gritty, Oscar nominated 1996 film 'Trainspotting'. 'T2: Trainspotting' is set a decade after the first film and reunites the ...
The 20-year hiatus between the creation of “Trainspotting” and its sequel left some questions about the viability of a follow-up storyline about the misadventures of a group of Scottish heroin addicts ...
20 years ago, a low-budget film with a great soundtrack (Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Blur) became a huge hit. And then a lot of people ended up with a poster on their bedroom wall featuring an epically ...