During the chat, which included the actor, director Danny Boyle, author Irvine Welsh, and producer Andrew Macdonald, McGregor confesses that he was open to dabbling in the same addictive drugs that ...

The bust-up with Harvey Weinstein, Irvine Welsh’s verdict on the script (‘too effete’), the problem with the excrement scene … the cast and crew relive the making of the classic 1996 film Welsh had ...

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 ...

Self-destructive heroin junkies seldom get sequels, but this is a nice (if needless) way to revisit some of the '90s most memorable addicts. The most remarkable thing about “T2 Trainspotting” (other ...

"The condemnation of a prominent asshole is absolutely fantastic," says Irvine Welsh. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent When the first Trainspotting was released in the U.S. in 1996, the film came ...

“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 ...

After 20 years, a major falling out between director Danny Boyle and star Ewan McGregor and a lengthy gestation period, the creative team behind the cult hit aim to reclaim the '90s mojo of the ...

The opening minutes of Danny Boyle's Trainspotting stand as a defining pop salvo in the movies, akin to The Beatles dashing away from screaming fans in A Hard Day's Night or Rosie Perez shadow-boxing ...

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." ...

So let me preface this by saying that I’m only twenty-four. A certain type of movie that I hadn’t been super aware of for a long time were black comedy-dramas, mainly because for a long time, the idea ...

In 1996, visionary and visceral director, Danny Boyle, brought Irvine Welsh's saga of substance abuse to life, creating one of the most beloved cult classics of all time. Starring Ewan McGregor ...

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 ...