20 years ago, Mark Renton’s jailbait girlfriend Diane told him, “You’re not getting any younger, Mark. The world is changing, music is changing, even drugs are changing. You can’t stay in here all day ...

The Trainspotting sequel successfully recreates the humour and grit of the original, but also finds new layers of reflection ...

Irvine Welsh has said that he wants to get cracking on a third Trainspotting movie before the movie's stars are all 'in a rest home'. Welsh, now 62, said: “There is no culture now and the pertinent ...

Prior to the first-ever public screening of Steve Jobs, Boyle received a Telluride Medallion for his body of work, clips of which included a certain vivid public toilet-diving scene from Trainspotting ...

The rock band Oasis, Britain's hottest act in the late 1990s and early 2000s, turned down a chance to be on the soundtrack of the movie "Trainspotting" because band members thought it was about ...

Attempting to make a sequel to a film nearly twenty years after the original is generally a risky prospect, specifically for films that were cultural landmarks at the time of their release. Not only ...

With the sequel — finally — upon us, the director and star plus author Irvine Welsh, producer Andrew Macdonald and more look back on the 1996 Cool Britannia flagbearer and how it all happened. By Alex ...

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 ...

“Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh has returned to the scene of the crime with “Dead Man’s Trousers,” his 12th novel. Many crimes, actually, committed by four, not-so-young-anymore Scottish men. They ...