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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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 21 years since Trainspotting turned a blackly-comic druggie caper into generational touchstone, spiking the careers of all involved. Renton (Ewan McGregor) was young Obi Wan. Begbie (Robert ...

If you live long enough, chances are you’ll betray a dear friend. It might be a secret shared without permission, credit willfully withheld—or, if you’re a Scottish heroin addict from the ...

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." ...