Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I did actually think about trying heroin. At first, early on, I thought: how can you play a heroin addict without having taken it ...

The author discusses his writing, the movies it created and his own youth, but not all the interviewees in this documentary are quite so gripping ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. T2 Trainspotting (Credit: Sony) Irvine Welsh has said that he wants to get cracking on a third Trainspotting movie before the ...

A new teaser for the sequel to Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting" shows the original cast in a familiar spot from 20 years ago. “It’s like 20 years later, and it’s the same actors,” Boyle told press at the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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." ...

Here on the NewsHour Arts desk, we regularly go to figures in the arts to ask for their recommendations on what we should be reading, listening to or watching right now. This week, we went to ...

In 1996, movie producer Andrew Macdonald and director Danny Boyle had the good sense to adapt the Irvine Welsh novel "Trainspotting" into a film. The story, which centered around a group of heroin ...

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 ...