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Director Danny Boyle Talks T2 Trainspotting

There’s no lack of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’roll in T2 Trainspotting. The long-awaited sequel to director Danny Boyle’s darkly comic and stylized ode to youthful anarchy and heroin addiction that shook the cinematic landscape in 1996 lands in U.S. theaters on Friday. The Scottish gang of four as well as the actors who brought them to ...

By  |  March 16, 2017
Berlinale 2017 — Wrap-Up

The 67th Berlinale is a wrap, with the Golden Bear awarded to Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi for Testről és lélekről, or On Body and Soul, a love story set in a Budapest slaughterhouse. A number of women directors had strong entries in the festival — Sally Potter’s The Party comes to mind, a theatrical black-and-white ...

By  |  February 22, 2017
Berlinale 2017: Danny Boyle Brings Back Trainspotting

Having run off to Amsterdam with 16,000 pounds after a heroin deal at the end of Trainspotting, director Danny Boyle’s sequel, T2: Trainspotting, sees Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) return, after twenty years, to Edinburgh. If his Dutch wife and children named Laura and James, seem too bucolic to be believed, it’s because they are. Boyle’s ...

By  |  February 13, 2017
T2: Trainspotting Drops New Trailer

While today's film news is understandably going to be dominated by the Oscar nominations, for a look ahead at what to get excited about in 2017, we point you towards Danny Boyle's return to the material that made his name. Yup, we're talking about T2: Trainspotting, folks, and we're excited. The gang is back; Mark Renton ...

By  |  January 24, 2017
Still Crazy After all These Years: T2 Trainspotting Drops 1st Trailer

The boys are back. Danny Boyle’s much-anticipated Trainspotting sequel, T2 Trainspotting, has a brand new trailer.  Boyle’s original and the sequel are based on characters created by Irvine Welsh, reuniting the visionary director with Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge. All of the principal cast of the 1996 film have returned—Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner ...

By  |  November 3, 2016