Earlier this year, Danny Boyle brought back the drug-addled characters of his cult favorite Trainspotting for a sequel that took 20 years to get off the ground. T2 Trainspotting caught up with Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, and Robert Carlyle as Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie at a drastically different time in their […]
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- 6/22/2017
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
Author: Competitions
First there was an opportunity… then there was a betrayal. T2 Trainspotting is available now on DVD, Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD. To celebrate, we have three copies of the film on Blu-ray to giveaway to three lucky winners!
Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed, but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him. Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie. Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.
Starring Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge), Ewen Bremner(Trainspotting, Wonder Woman), Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Dark Shadows) and Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, 28 Weeks Later), T2 Trainspotting reunites Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) with the original cast...
First there was an opportunity… then there was a betrayal. T2 Trainspotting is available now on DVD, Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD. To celebrate, we have three copies of the film on Blu-ray to giveaway to three lucky winners!
Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed, but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him. Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie. Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.
Starring Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge), Ewen Bremner(Trainspotting, Wonder Woman), Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Dark Shadows) and Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, 28 Weeks Later), T2 Trainspotting reunites Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) with the original cast...
- 6/9/2017
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The actor who played Trainspotting’s lovable loser Spud answered questions on everything from working with Harmony Korine and Mike Leigh, to his favourite Pixar movie and why he still takes pleasure in other people’s leisure
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Thanks for all your questions! Goodbye
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ed pp asks:
Did you ever find Maggie?
Yeah, I found her. Susan Vidler did the original stage production of Trainspotting with me and played Sick Boy's partner in the movie. Fantastic actress.
Continue reading...
2.08pm BST
Thanks for all your questions! Goodbye
2.08pm BST
ed pp asks:
Did you ever find Maggie?
Yeah, I found her. Susan Vidler did the original stage production of Trainspotting with me and played Sick Boy's partner in the movie. Fantastic actress.
Continue reading...
- 6/5/2017
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
[Editor’s Note: This post is presented in partnership with Movies on Demand. Catch up on the latest films On Demand here.]
It’s another month of new quality films available on Movies on Demand, including some of the top international titles of the past year. Check out four of our favorite films from the upcoming month below, as well as the full list of great movies available throughout June.
1) “I, Daniel Blake” (Available June 2)
Last year’s surprise Palme D’or winner is a quiet look at life in working-class Britain. Directed by Ken Loach (“The Wind That Shakes the Barley”), the film also features a breakout performance from Hayley Squires.
2) “John Wick: Chapter 2” (Available June 13)
Keanu Reeves’ instant-classic hero is back for more revenge and more adorable pups. An international pursuit with global contract killers sets the stage for another addition to action film’s most exciting budding franchise. (Did we mention the dogs?)
3) “Personal Shopper” (Available June 27)
Olivier Assayas’ latest film is a ghost story unlike any other.
It’s another month of new quality films available on Movies on Demand, including some of the top international titles of the past year. Check out four of our favorite films from the upcoming month below, as well as the full list of great movies available throughout June.
1) “I, Daniel Blake” (Available June 2)
Last year’s surprise Palme D’or winner is a quiet look at life in working-class Britain. Directed by Ken Loach (“The Wind That Shakes the Barley”), the film also features a breakout performance from Hayley Squires.
2) “John Wick: Chapter 2” (Available June 13)
Keanu Reeves’ instant-classic hero is back for more revenge and more adorable pups. An international pursuit with global contract killers sets the stage for another addition to action film’s most exciting budding franchise. (Did we mention the dogs?)
3) “Personal Shopper” (Available June 27)
Olivier Assayas’ latest film is a ghost story unlike any other.
- 6/2/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Author: Jon Lyus
When Danny Boyle reunited Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle for a twenty-years-later catch up with the Trainspotting boys few were prepared for the collision of emotions and expectations. T2: Trainspotting detailed the two decade fallout of the events of the first film, but went to a deep well of confusion and longing. The ghosts of a long-lost past shared space with a difficult present. It was a perfect return.
The recent spate of revivals, rather than reboots, play on the nostalgia inherent in revisiting old friends. What Danny Boyle did with T2 was expand the story beyond the confines of the original. Rather than replaying, he simply picked up the story years later and successfully used the emotional baggage of the intervening years in compelling fashion.
Today we’re delighted to bring you a moment from the film you didn’t...
When Danny Boyle reunited Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle for a twenty-years-later catch up with the Trainspotting boys few were prepared for the collision of emotions and expectations. T2: Trainspotting detailed the two decade fallout of the events of the first film, but went to a deep well of confusion and longing. The ghosts of a long-lost past shared space with a difficult present. It was a perfect return.
The recent spate of revivals, rather than reboots, play on the nostalgia inherent in revisiting old friends. What Danny Boyle did with T2 was expand the story beyond the confines of the original. Rather than replaying, he simply picked up the story years later and successfully used the emotional baggage of the intervening years in compelling fashion.
Today we’re delighted to bring you a moment from the film you didn’t...
- 5/25/2017
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We’re knocking on the door of summer, and that means lots of big properties are ready to be unleashed. But it’s not too late to read books exploring some recent films, as well as some new works about Sherry Lansing, film noir, and Steve McQueen. Let’s start with a unique look at David Lynch’s Twin Peaks.
The Essential Wrapped In Plastic: Pathways to Twin Peaks by John Thorne
When Twin Peaks debuted on ABC in 1990, there were no message boards in which fans could argue and dissect the latest episodes. Starting in 1992, however, there was Wrapped In Plastic, the immortal Peaks’ fanzine. Just in time for the series return on Showtime is The Essential Wrapped In Plastic: Pathways to Twin Peaks. Here, Wip co-editor John Thorne brings together some of the publication’s most vital, important essays. Every episode is included, but what makes the book...
The Essential Wrapped In Plastic: Pathways to Twin Peaks by John Thorne
When Twin Peaks debuted on ABC in 1990, there were no message boards in which fans could argue and dissect the latest episodes. Starting in 1992, however, there was Wrapped In Plastic, the immortal Peaks’ fanzine. Just in time for the series return on Showtime is The Essential Wrapped In Plastic: Pathways to Twin Peaks. Here, Wip co-editor John Thorne brings together some of the publication’s most vital, important essays. Every episode is included, but what makes the book...
- 5/6/2017
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Over 20 years after first making waves on the big screen, Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie and Spud are back – and with much more fanfare.
In the decades since director Danny Boyle’s 1996 dark comedy Trainspotting hit theaters, the film has become a cult classic, which star Jonny Lee Miller says made filming the newly released sequel a little tricky.
“There’s the challenge of like, when you’re shooting Trainspotting and everyone knows you’re shooting Trainspotting – said it’s like Scotland’s Star Wars,” Miller tells People in this week’s issue.
T2 Trainspotting finds Miller and his original castmates – Ewan McGregor,...
In the decades since director Danny Boyle’s 1996 dark comedy Trainspotting hit theaters, the film has become a cult classic, which star Jonny Lee Miller says made filming the newly released sequel a little tricky.
“There’s the challenge of like, when you’re shooting Trainspotting and everyone knows you’re shooting Trainspotting – said it’s like Scotland’s Star Wars,” Miller tells People in this week’s issue.
T2 Trainspotting finds Miller and his original castmates – Ewan McGregor,...
- 3/24/2017
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
MaryAnn’s quick take… The sparse, cold satisfaction that could be wrung from Trainspotting’s punk insolence has been replaced by an exhausted cynicism. Which is exactly right. I’m “biast” (pro): love the 1996 film
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Choose life,” Mark Renton suggested back in 1996, when he was a heroin addict in Edinburgh. Mark’s advice was ironic, of course, because he “chose not to choose life” and was courting death by overdose or death by AIDS-acquired-via-a-shared-needle. But the life he was rebelling against was one of conformity and consumerism — “choose a fucking big television; choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers” — a life in which no one actually has much choice anyway. So, while Trainspotting hardly romanticizes drug addiction — the film’s depictions of the...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Choose life,” Mark Renton suggested back in 1996, when he was a heroin addict in Edinburgh. Mark’s advice was ironic, of course, because he “chose not to choose life” and was courting death by overdose or death by AIDS-acquired-via-a-shared-needle. But the life he was rebelling against was one of conformity and consumerism — “choose a fucking big television; choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers” — a life in which no one actually has much choice anyway. So, while Trainspotting hardly romanticizes drug addiction — the film’s depictions of the...
- 3/22/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Plot: Twenty years after stealing the proceeds of a drug deal, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to his native Edinburgh to make amends with Spud (Ewan Bremmer) and Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), only to get caught up in the latter.s scheme. Meanwhile, the psychotic Begbie (Robert Carlyle) has escaped prison and wants to make Renton pay. Review: Like any other Trainspotting fan, I was wary of a... Read More...
- 3/21/2017
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the highly anticipated sequel “T2 Trainspotting” starring Ewan McGregor!
Since the hit film “Trainspotting” in 1996, fans have been waiting for this sequel for 21 years!
“T2 Trainspotting,” which opens in Chicago on March 24, 2017 and is rated “R,” also stars Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle from director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire,” “Sunshine”) and writer John Hodge based on the novels by Chicago’s Irvine Welsh. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “T2 Trainspotting” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning!
Since the hit film “Trainspotting” in 1996, fans have been waiting for this sequel for 21 years!
“T2 Trainspotting,” which opens in Chicago on March 24, 2017 and is rated “R,” also stars Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle from director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire,” “Sunshine”) and writer John Hodge based on the novels by Chicago’s Irvine Welsh. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “T2 Trainspotting” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning!
- 3/21/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In 1997 there came a little movie called Trainspotting, adapted by director Danny Boyle and scenarist John Hodge from Scottish writer Irvine Welsh’s novel of the same name. It was the loose-limbed story of a group of childhood friends spinning their collective wheels in the working-class gloom of Edinburgh, Scotland, scheming schemes, committing petty crimes, arguing the merits of Sean Connery (and, by extension, Scotland) and trying to sustain those decaying friendships all while rotating in and out of a seemingly hopeless cycle of heroin addiction, indulgence and withdrawal. For me, Trainspotting’s exuberant, hyperkinetic style decorated a somewhat sensationalistic attitude toward tragedy, on a sociopolitical as well as personal scale, and its scabrous energy always seemed too much at odds with the overwhelming lethargy which follows the orgasmic relief of a desperately needed hit. (I guess I’m more of a Panic in Needle Park kind of guy.)
But what do I know?...
But what do I know?...
- 3/19/2017
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
[This story contains minor spoilers from T2 Trainspotting.]
Danny Boyle wants to see a third Trainspotting film, but he's choosing not to pursue that himself.
The 1996 cult hit and the new sequel star Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle as former drug pals Mark "Rent" Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie, respectively. The follow-up borrows from Porno, also by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.
Boyle told The Hollywood Reporter that another book of Welsh's has the potential to be turned into a third Trainspotting movie: "Irvine Welsh returns to these characters in many...
Danny Boyle wants to see a third Trainspotting film, but he's choosing not to pursue that himself.
The 1996 cult hit and the new sequel star Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle as former drug pals Mark "Rent" Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie, respectively. The follow-up borrows from Porno, also by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.
Boyle told The Hollywood Reporter that another book of Welsh's has the potential to be turned into a third Trainspotting movie: "Irvine Welsh returns to these characters in many...
- 3/19/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Danny Boyle and “Trainspotting” helped define the way an entire generation saw drugs — not just the fact of them, but also the experience of what it would be like to take them. Although today, Boyle thinks his quick-cutting, off-kilter depiction is of a different drug than what you remember.
“I think if you’re being honest, the first film resembled more Mdma drug abuse than actual heroin abuse,” Boyle said. He spoke to IndieWire on a tour stop in Chicago, now the home of Irvine Welsh, author of the original novel. “The adrenaline of the film was much greater, whereas heroin abuse is obviously a very dull subject to actually look at – not much happens. People just stall in the corner, really, or go fairly soporific.”
Twenty years later, “T2 Trainspotting,” like its predecessor, turns that “dull subject” into a rollicking ride. Reuniting stars Ewan MacGregor, Ewen Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller,...
“I think if you’re being honest, the first film resembled more Mdma drug abuse than actual heroin abuse,” Boyle said. He spoke to IndieWire on a tour stop in Chicago, now the home of Irvine Welsh, author of the original novel. “The adrenaline of the film was much greater, whereas heroin abuse is obviously a very dull subject to actually look at – not much happens. People just stall in the corner, really, or go fairly soporific.”
Twenty years later, “T2 Trainspotting,” like its predecessor, turns that “dull subject” into a rollicking ride. Reuniting stars Ewan MacGregor, Ewen Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller,...
- 3/17/2017
- by Andrew Lapin
- Indiewire
The most remarkable thing about “T2 Trainspotting” (other than the sequel’s stupid in-joke of a title) is that all of the original film’s heroin junkie heroes are somehow still alive. It’s been 21 years since Danny Boyle first made smack look a little bit too cool, and 1996 feels several eons removed from the post-Brexit nonsense we’re dealing with now, but Scotland’s four favorite dope fiends haven’t changed nearly as much as the world around them. They’re still addicts, even if some of them have found a new drug of choice. They’re still fools, even if Boyle has made so many slick movies about the perils of romanticizing self-destruction (e.g. “A Life Less Ordinary,” “The Beach,” and “Steve Jobs”) that it’s hard to take him seriously as a voice of reason. Worst of all, they’re still a lot of fun to watch,...
- 3/16/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
“What you been up to — for 20 years?” says Jonny Lee Miller to Ewan McGregor in T2 Trainspotting, the sequel to the 1996 cult hit film that launched careers and defined the Cool Britannia era. Also starring Robert Carlyle and Ewen Bremner, the Danny Boyle-directed sequel checks in on former heroin addict Mark "Rent" Renton and his drug pals Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie.
Ahead of Sony’s limited release of the TriStar title in the U.S. on Friday, Boyle spoke to The Hollywood Reporter to talk shooting in a much more vibrant Edinburgh, following up on a now-iconic...
Ahead of Sony’s limited release of the TriStar title in the U.S. on Friday, Boyle spoke to The Hollywood Reporter to talk shooting in a much more vibrant Edinburgh, following up on a now-iconic...
- 3/16/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here’s to trying. Danny Boyle’s 1996 breakthrough, Trainspotting, cast its Scottish heroin addicts as chumps and subversive figures in equal measure, the idea being that junkies’ desperate need for a fix illuminated the bullshit of day-to-day life while clouding their ability to recognize their own. Terrifically energizing and entertaining, it was like a Richard Lester movie on the skids, fueled by the notion that hard drugs could be both horrifying and fun and that the degradation of procuring smack and cash was a bonus high—that hooliganish “I’m on top of Mount Everest” look that Ewan McGregor’s character, Renton, might give after almost getting creamed by a car or fishing a couple of opium suppositories out of a shit-clogged toilet. T2 Trainspotting catches up with the characters about 20 years later, long after Renton and his ex-bud Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson (Jonny Lee Miller) have quit ...
- 3/16/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Back in 1996, Trainspotting (adapted from Irvine Welsh's 1993 cult novel) emerged as one of the great British films of the era, one that bristled with incendiary sense of style and danger. The daring dims a bit in T2: Trainspotting, though director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Steve Jobs) and doctor-turned-screenwriter John Hodge try their damnedest to force lightning to strike twice. The passing of two decades can take the piss out of characters, especially the four slum-dwelling Scotsman who caught that generation-defining moment of youth-in-revolt set to a pulsating Brit-pop score (Elastica,...
- 3/15/2017
- Rollingstone.com
A staple of mid 90’s independent breakthrough cinema, Trainspotting has long been a movie that seemed poised to get a sequel. After all, author Irvine Welsh did write a sequel to his novel of the same name, that one called Porno. This week, the sequel does arrive, though this is with the slightly more multiplex friendly title of T2: Trainspotting. The film looks to recapture what people loved so much about the first one. Considering how long this next installment had been brewing before everyone signed on the dotted line, it would have to be in order to work. Luckily, that seems to be the case. Crisis averted! This sequel is a return to the world initially presented to us in Trainspotting, obviously. After having spent 20 years abroad following his escape in the first one, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) makes a returns to Scotland. There, he reunites with his...
- 3/15/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out. And if you're into box office and how movies might do, come play some of the box office games at EZ1 Productions including their new Pick 5 game!
This Past Weekend:
As expected, Legendary Pictures’ Kong: Skull Island won the weekend, and honestly, the Weekend Warrior’s original prediction of $61.6 million was pretty darn close to the movie’s opening weekend which ended up at $61 million. (Unfortunately, I chickened out on Thursday because my prediction was so much higher than all others and lowered it to $58 million, which was Still closer to than every other prediction last weekend.) Also, as expected (at least by me), Hugh Jackman’s Logan took a 2nd weekend tumble as has been the case with most X-Men movies,...
This Past Weekend:
As expected, Legendary Pictures’ Kong: Skull Island won the weekend, and honestly, the Weekend Warrior’s original prediction of $61.6 million was pretty darn close to the movie’s opening weekend which ended up at $61 million. (Unfortunately, I chickened out on Thursday because my prediction was so much higher than all others and lowered it to $58 million, which was Still closer to than every other prediction last weekend.) Also, as expected (at least by me), Hugh Jackman’s Logan took a 2nd weekend tumble as has been the case with most X-Men movies,...
- 3/15/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Back on Track: Interview with star of T2: Trainspotting, Jonny Lee MillerBack on Track: Interview with star of T2: Trainspotting, Jonny Lee MillerJulide Tanriverdi - Cineplex Magazine3/14/2017 10:01:00 Am
When, in June 2016, rumour got out that director Danny Boyle had started filming the sequel to his cult hit Trainspotting people got very excited.
Paparazzi and fans alike flocked to the Edinburgh set and disrupted filming, making it tough for the filmmakers to keep anything secret. “They were trying to shelter our costumes. They had umbrellas and were like, ‘Put your hood on when you get your hair done,’” recalls Jonny Lee Miller, who once again plays platinum-blond drug addict Sick Boy. “Danny said, ‘It’s like f--king Star Wars up here.’ There was a level of excitement which was quite alarming.”
The 1996 film was an unexpected sensation and made instant stars out of Miller and his co-stars Ewan McGregor,...
When, in June 2016, rumour got out that director Danny Boyle had started filming the sequel to his cult hit Trainspotting people got very excited.
Paparazzi and fans alike flocked to the Edinburgh set and disrupted filming, making it tough for the filmmakers to keep anything secret. “They were trying to shelter our costumes. They had umbrellas and were like, ‘Put your hood on when you get your hair done,’” recalls Jonny Lee Miller, who once again plays platinum-blond drug addict Sick Boy. “Danny said, ‘It’s like f--king Star Wars up here.’ There was a level of excitement which was quite alarming.”
The 1996 film was an unexpected sensation and made instant stars out of Miller and his co-stars Ewan McGregor,...
- 3/14/2017
- by Julide Tanriverdi - Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
Kicking heroin and staying off it for 20 years is only the first step for Renton. Facing the likely elimination of his office job, Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Edinburgh, Scotland in search of something he cannot yet identify. Lost youth? His next step in life? His old mates are not faring so well. Spud (Ewen Bremner), whose many rehabilitations have never been long-lasting, is separated from old love Gail (Shirley Henderson) and his wee lad and on the verge of finally giving up. Begbie (Robert Carlyle) has been in prison for two decades, but he's had enough and decides to return home on his own terms. Simon (Jonny Lee Miller), formerly known as Sick Boy, is doing a tiny bit better in material terms,...
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- 3/13/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Danny Boyle and his Trainspotting players returned to the world of their 21-year-old cult classic, and the results were, apparently, perfectly all right. That it’s heavily reliant, too reliant, on the first film’s magic is no surprise, but it’s nice that the return of Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald wasn’t entirely for naught.
The latest preview — I think there have been 38 now? — is titled “Legacy,” though that’s not to say it’s much different from what’s been seen thus far. For a better, more honest sense of what to expect, turn to our review, where we say, “[The] film is about unused potential. These deadbeats have sunk back into their old routines now that the promise of the first film’s events have not come to life. The melancholy here is truthful and painful, but T2: Trainspotting...
The latest preview — I think there have been 38 now? — is titled “Legacy,” though that’s not to say it’s much different from what’s been seen thus far. For a better, more honest sense of what to expect, turn to our review, where we say, “[The] film is about unused potential. These deadbeats have sunk back into their old routines now that the promise of the first film’s events have not come to life. The melancholy here is truthful and painful, but T2: Trainspotting...
- 3/3/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
What to see and do with the family during March Break!What to see and do with the family during March Break!Jenny Bullough3/3/2017 11:01:00 Am We confess, we love March Break, and we’re a little nostalgic for when we were kids and had a whole week off from the mundanity of school. The good news is that we can enjoy this time as adults too, as it’s a great opportunity to spend quality time bonding with the kids doing something we love! Even if we as adults have to work while the kids are at home or at day camp, March Break is still a nice reprieve from the usual school/work/home routine. We recommend seizing this chance to prioritize family entertainment! Here are some recommendations for things to see, watch, and do with the family during March Break (and some bonus recommendations for adult...
- 3/3/2017
- by Jenny Bullough
- Cineplex
Pirates of the Caribbean, T2 trailers, Beauty and the Beast featurette and more make our daily round-upPirates of the Caribbean, T2 trailers, Beauty and the Beast featurette and more make our daily round-upGarrett McCormick3/2/2017 5:23:00 Pm
Check out our daily round-up featuring today's more buzz-worthy movie news.
T2: Trainspotting
It's been more than a while since we've seen the Trainspotting gang on the big screen, but the wait is finally over!
After 20 years, Mark Renton reunites with Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Spud (Ewen Bremner), and Diane (Kelly Macdonald).
A sequel to 1996's Trainspotting, T2 follows the gang as they have to make some serious life choices; stay clean, calm and be the adult that they are, or continue down the wild path that their younger selves would be proud of.
T2 hits Cineplex theatres March 17th - Watch the new trailer below:
Click here for tickets and showtimes!
Check out our daily round-up featuring today's more buzz-worthy movie news.
T2: Trainspotting
It's been more than a while since we've seen the Trainspotting gang on the big screen, but the wait is finally over!
After 20 years, Mark Renton reunites with Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Spud (Ewen Bremner), and Diane (Kelly Macdonald).
A sequel to 1996's Trainspotting, T2 follows the gang as they have to make some serious life choices; stay clean, calm and be the adult that they are, or continue down the wild path that their younger selves would be proud of.
T2 hits Cineplex theatres March 17th - Watch the new trailer below:
Click here for tickets and showtimes!
- 3/2/2017
- by Garrett McCormick
- Cineplex
We've got a new trailer for you to watch for Danny Boyle's long awaited Trainspotting sequel, T2: Trainspotting. It's a fantastic trailer that is filled with praise from critics who loved the movie. If you were hoping that this would be a great film, it looks like that's what we're going to get. The trailer is also filled with some fun new footage.
I loved the first Trainspotting film. Regardless of how dark and depressing it was, there were still life lessons to be learned from it. This sequel seems like it's going to have a more positive inspiring tone, though, as Renton comes back clean of heroin, and he wants to help his friend Spud get clean and find purpose. Don't worry, there's still going to lots of crazy shit that goes down!
Ewan McGregor returns to the role of Renton, Ewen Bremner as Spud, Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy,...
I loved the first Trainspotting film. Regardless of how dark and depressing it was, there were still life lessons to be learned from it. This sequel seems like it's going to have a more positive inspiring tone, though, as Renton comes back clean of heroin, and he wants to help his friend Spud get clean and find purpose. Don't worry, there's still going to lots of crazy shit that goes down!
Ewan McGregor returns to the role of Renton, Ewen Bremner as Spud, Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy,...
- 3/2/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine,... Read More...
- 3/2/2017
- by Sean Wist
- JoBlo.com
With the “Lust for Life” drums pounding and Ewan McGregor’s older, maybe wiser ex-junkie surveying the tiny room that housed cinema’s grimmest heroin withdrawal, this new trailer couldn’t herald the arrival of anything but Danny Boyle’s T2 Trainspotting. “Twenty years have just flown by, yeah?” says Ewen Bremner’s Spud to McGregor’s Mark Renton. Maybe, maybe not, but the Trainspotting gang’s back just the same, with Jonny Lee Miller’s Sick Boy and Robert Carlyle’s Begbie…...
- 3/2/2017
- Deadline
Out of curiosity, have any of you seen the show Nothing But Trailers on Axs TV? If you ever want to get overloaded with movie trailers I highly recommend it. It runs for 2 hours and does exactly what it says, runs movie trailers non-stop. There are commercial breaks but they’re really not that bad. I bring this up because I watched it last night and had a chance to see the new T2: Trainspotting trailer. Luckily it just hit the internet and we can share it with you today. Trainspotting‘s Rent Boy, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie reunite in
T2: Trainspotting’s Latest Trailer has a “Lust for Life”...
T2: Trainspotting’s Latest Trailer has a “Lust for Life”...
- 3/2/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Trainspotting's Rent Boy, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie reunite in the latest trailer for Danny Boyle's T2, the sequel to the cult 1996 film that picks up two decades after the original cult classic.
Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life," the quasi-anthem for the original film, is also back to pace the new preview, premiering at Rolling Stone. The clip finds Ewan McGregor's ex-addict Renton attempting to reconcile with Edinburgh buddies after ripping them off in the original film.
T2 has already opened in the United Kingdom, where...
Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life," the quasi-anthem for the original film, is also back to pace the new preview, premiering at Rolling Stone. The clip finds Ewan McGregor's ex-addict Renton attempting to reconcile with Edinburgh buddies after ripping them off in the original film.
T2 has already opened in the United Kingdom, where...
- 3/2/2017
- Rollingstone.com
There’s ghosts, mutants, David Lynch, gorillas, cannibalism, the afterlife, and more to experience in theaters this month. Aside from the theatrical offerings, we can’t neglect mentioning the documentary adaptation Five Came Back — which explores the careers of five iconic Hollywood directors and their experience in World War II — hitting Netflix at the end of the month. Check out our picks for what to see below and let us know what you’re most looking forward to.
Matinees to See: Catfight (3/3), Before I Fall (3/3), Donald Cried (3/3), My Scientology Movie (3/3), Table 19 (3/3), Wolves (3/3), The Sense of an Ending (3/10), Burning Sands (3/10), Brimstone (3/10), 13 Minutes (3/17), Beauty and the Beast (3/17), The Belko Experiment (3/17), Burn Your Maps (3/17), The Devil’s Candy (3/17), Bokeh (3/24), I Called Him Morgan (3/24), Wilson (3/24), Life (3/24), Cezanne et moi (3/31), and Ghost in the Shell (3/31),
15. The Zookeeper’s Wife (Niki Caro; March 31)
Synopsis: The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo,...
Matinees to See: Catfight (3/3), Before I Fall (3/3), Donald Cried (3/3), My Scientology Movie (3/3), Table 19 (3/3), Wolves (3/3), The Sense of an Ending (3/10), Burning Sands (3/10), Brimstone (3/10), 13 Minutes (3/17), Beauty and the Beast (3/17), The Belko Experiment (3/17), Burn Your Maps (3/17), The Devil’s Candy (3/17), Bokeh (3/24), I Called Him Morgan (3/24), Wilson (3/24), Life (3/24), Cezanne et moi (3/31), and Ghost in the Shell (3/31),
15. The Zookeeper’s Wife (Niki Caro; March 31)
Synopsis: The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo,...
- 3/1/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Blockbuster season starts earlier and earlier every year – in 2017, we have made it three whole days into March before those studio tentpoles start to break ground. Heavy hitters Logan, Kong: Skull Island, Power Rangers and Ghost in the Shell will get the blockbuster year off to a roaring start. Meanwhile, those in search of smaller-scale entertainment can enjoy Terence Malick's latest dreamy drama, a cannibalism flick with a reputation that precedes it and a festival favorite featuring a career-best performance from Kristen Stewart. Here's what you need to see over the next month.
- 2/28/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Off to the races with a strong box office reception in the U.K., “T2 Trainspotting” is making a pit stop at the Berlin Film Festival, before coming to North America. But if you’re eager for that lust for life spirit just a little bit early, these clips from the movie should do the trick.
Renton (Ewan McGregor), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) are reunited decades following “Trainspotting,” where friendships are renewed and old wounds are still festering.
Continue reading Prison, Promises & More In New Clips From ‘T2 Trainspotting’ at The Playlist.
Renton (Ewan McGregor), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) are reunited decades following “Trainspotting,” where friendships are renewed and old wounds are still festering.
Continue reading Prison, Promises & More In New Clips From ‘T2 Trainspotting’ at The Playlist.
- 2/15/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The boys are back in town. After 20 years, writer/director Danny Boyle has reunited the four crazy kids from Trainspotting for the sequel - titled T2: Trainspotting. This film isn't so much of a reboot or remake or another wild story of drug trips, as it is a much more somber, sober follow-up looking at how much life has changed since they were young and full of life and didn't give a shit about anything. This film plays heavily on nostalgia, which makes sense considering the first film is so iconic, and yet still has so much to say about life and where it takes us and the dreams we stop chasing. It's a somewhat sad look at how much real life sucks and getting old sucks and things just aren't the same anymore. Where are drugs when we need them? The four old friends are back: Ewan McGregor as Renton,...
- 2/11/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Something happened at my midnight public screening in London of Danny Boyle’s sequel to his 1996 smash. A heckler at the back, perhaps influenced by alcohol or the fact that he had been ground down by the film’s incessant flashbacks and reminiscence, aimed at the screen and shouted “nostalgic shite.” And that half-sums up T2: Trainspotting, a movie whose advent looks only to have been beckoned by fans’ longing to see the original film’s gang back together. Still, I mean half when I say it, and Boyle’s verve as a director means there’s still plenty of vibrant imagery, alongside a script that, although lacking any of the electricity of the original’s state-of-the-nation wisecracks (“Scotland is a nation colonized by wankers”), is funny and disarmingly melancholic.
The first film’s breakout stars Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, and Robert Carlyle all return, and...
The first film’s breakout stars Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, and Robert Carlyle all return, and...
- 2/10/2017
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
Starting today at 11:30Am Et/8:30Am Pt, you can watch a live stream of the Berlinale press conference featuring the cast and crew of “T2: Trainspotting.” Filmmaker Danny Boyle is expected to attend the conference, as well as cast members including Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald.
Boyle’s long-awaited follow-up to his modern classic is hitting the Berlinale for a special competition slot, and the gang is all back together in celebration.
Read More: Paul Verhoeven to Serve as Berlin Film Festival Jury President
Per the film’s official synopsis, “Did Renton really start a family, buy a car and a washing machine as he proclaimed at the end of Danny Boyle’s successful cult film? Or how else did he spend the 16,000 pounds he stole from his friends following their heroin deal? These may be the questions we ask ourselves twenty...
Boyle’s long-awaited follow-up to his modern classic is hitting the Berlinale for a special competition slot, and the gang is all back together in celebration.
Read More: Paul Verhoeven to Serve as Berlin Film Festival Jury President
Per the film’s official synopsis, “Did Renton really start a family, buy a car and a washing machine as he proclaimed at the end of Danny Boyle’s successful cult film? Or how else did he spend the 16,000 pounds he stole from his friends following their heroin deal? These may be the questions we ask ourselves twenty...
- 2/10/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Minor Spoilers
Like any film with an extended period of time between the original and sequel(s), T2: Trainspotting (2017) is required to form an immediate connection with its audience. Twenty years have passed, yet we must feel accustomed to this world. For every element of change, something else must remain the same. We take comfort in what we know; it allows us to enjoy the new without fear of the unknown. If T2 had been released a couple of years after Trainspotting (1996), it could potentially have been set in Benidorm. Transplanting our anti-heroes from Scotland to Spain is fine when they are fresh in our conscious mind, but twenty years later we need a way back. In T2 this is achieved by location (still in Leith, Edinburgh), music and costume. Not much has changed in this respect, and what has we probably expected to.
Costume designers for T2 are Rachael Fleming,...
Like any film with an extended period of time between the original and sequel(s), T2: Trainspotting (2017) is required to form an immediate connection with its audience. Twenty years have passed, yet we must feel accustomed to this world. For every element of change, something else must remain the same. We take comfort in what we know; it allows us to enjoy the new without fear of the unknown. If T2 had been released a couple of years after Trainspotting (1996), it could potentially have been set in Benidorm. Transplanting our anti-heroes from Scotland to Spain is fine when they are fresh in our conscious mind, but twenty years later we need a way back. In T2 this is achieved by location (still in Leith, Edinburgh), music and costume. Not much has changed in this respect, and what has we probably expected to.
Costume designers for T2 are Rachael Fleming,...
- 2/6/2017
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Author: Jon Lyus
It was a triumphant return for Danny Boyle and the Trainspotting boys last week. Jumping back into the world of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie was a real treat, and the film was able to harness the strange rush of emotions, for audience and players alike, to create something hilarious, dangerous and moving.
Seeking out his old stomping ground, Ewan McGregor’s Renton returns to the place he once called home, and it was a similar return north of the border for Danny Boyle. In this new exclusive featurette Boyle talks about that return, and how it enhanced the message of the film.
You can find all of the interviews with the cast and crew from the World Premiere right here, read our review of T2 Trainspotting here, and look below for the new featurette.
T2 Trainspotting Movie Synopsis
Twenty years have gone by. Much has...
It was a triumphant return for Danny Boyle and the Trainspotting boys last week. Jumping back into the world of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie was a real treat, and the film was able to harness the strange rush of emotions, for audience and players alike, to create something hilarious, dangerous and moving.
Seeking out his old stomping ground, Ewan McGregor’s Renton returns to the place he once called home, and it was a similar return north of the border for Danny Boyle. In this new exclusive featurette Boyle talks about that return, and how it enhanced the message of the film.
You can find all of the interviews with the cast and crew from the World Premiere right here, read our review of T2 Trainspotting here, and look below for the new featurette.
T2 Trainspotting Movie Synopsis
Twenty years have gone by. Much has...
- 2/3/2017
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Anjela Nedyalkova, Kelly Macdonald | Written by John Hodge | Directed by Danny Boyle
20 years on, the idea of a sequel to a film that was so entrenched in a time and place in modern British history might seem like folly. And while it’s not as bad as it could have been, T2 Trainspotting (as it’s clunkily named) struggles to find a personality or a cultural relevance of its own. It tries hard – too hard – and ends up being a cover version as dodgy as the remixes that dominate its soundtrack.
First we find a middle-aged Renton (Ewan McGregor), running on a treadmill. Still running. Always running but getting nowhere. He’s living in Amsterdam, but he’s drawn back to Edinburgh. There, Spud (Ewen Bremner) has barely moved on. The clocks changed for British summertime and he got confused...
20 years on, the idea of a sequel to a film that was so entrenched in a time and place in modern British history might seem like folly. And while it’s not as bad as it could have been, T2 Trainspotting (as it’s clunkily named) struggles to find a personality or a cultural relevance of its own. It tries hard – too hard – and ends up being a cover version as dodgy as the remixes that dominate its soundtrack.
First we find a middle-aged Renton (Ewan McGregor), running on a treadmill. Still running. Always running but getting nowhere. He’s living in Amsterdam, but he’s drawn back to Edinburgh. There, Spud (Ewen Bremner) has barely moved on. The clocks changed for British summertime and he got confused...
- 2/2/2017
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Simon Brew Jan 24, 2017
Robert Carlyle suggests that chatter is already underway about a possible Trainspotting 3....
This Friday, just over 21 years since we last saw them on the big screen, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie return. As played by Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle, they are, of course, the core cast of Trainspotting. And they’re back on screen in T2: Trainspotting, for original director Danny Boyle.
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The gang really is all back together, too. An Irvine Welsh novel – Porno, in this case – has provided the basis of the story, and it’s been adapted by John Hodge, who picked up an Oscar nomination for the first movie.
What’s more, following the premiere of the film, chatter has picked up about a potential Trainspotting 3. Robert Carlyle, chatting to the Daily Mirror,...
Robert Carlyle suggests that chatter is already underway about a possible Trainspotting 3....
This Friday, just over 21 years since we last saw them on the big screen, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie return. As played by Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle, they are, of course, the core cast of Trainspotting. And they’re back on screen in T2: Trainspotting, for original director Danny Boyle.
See related Britsoft: An Oral History charts the early UK games industry
The gang really is all back together, too. An Irvine Welsh novel – Porno, in this case – has provided the basis of the story, and it’s been adapted by John Hodge, who picked up an Oscar nomination for the first movie.
What’s more, following the premiere of the film, chatter has picked up about a potential Trainspotting 3. Robert Carlyle, chatting to the Daily Mirror,...
- 1/24/2017
- Den of Geek
Author: David Sztypuljak
Last night, Edinburgh saw the stars of T2: Trainspotting (Trainspotting 2) attend the world premiere. It may have been a cold night but it didn’t stop hundreds of fans attending the star-studded event.
It’s been 20 years since the original Irvine Welsh novel was turned into a movie and saw the likes of relatively unknown actors Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner, Kelly Macdonald and Jonny Lee Miller all take to the screen helmed by the one and only Danny Boyle at the directing helm.
T2: Trainspotting Movie Poster
In those 20 years, a sequel to the movie has been attempted but have never come to fruition but now is the time for that sequel to land and we’ve been very excited for a long time.
Related: Our T2: Trainspotting Movie Review
All the actors mentioned above were in attendance at the world premiere...
Last night, Edinburgh saw the stars of T2: Trainspotting (Trainspotting 2) attend the world premiere. It may have been a cold night but it didn’t stop hundreds of fans attending the star-studded event.
It’s been 20 years since the original Irvine Welsh novel was turned into a movie and saw the likes of relatively unknown actors Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner, Kelly Macdonald and Jonny Lee Miller all take to the screen helmed by the one and only Danny Boyle at the directing helm.
T2: Trainspotting Movie Poster
In those 20 years, a sequel to the movie has been attempted but have never come to fruition but now is the time for that sequel to land and we’ve been very excited for a long time.
Related: Our T2: Trainspotting Movie Review
All the actors mentioned above were in attendance at the world premiere...
- 1/23/2017
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: Stefan Pape
When Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting first graced our screens in 1996, it transcended expectations spectacularly. It was more than just a movie, it was a cultural event, a film that spoke (well, shouted) directly to an entire generation. So how do you emulate what came before? The answer is, you don’t. You can’t. This eagerly anticipated sequel was never going to have the same impact as the original endeavour, but as long as you bear that in mind there is plenty to take away, for there is no doubting this picture carries that same, familiar swagger that illuminated the original. It’s a worthy follow-up – and that in itself is commendable enough.
Based on Irvine Welsh’s Porno, there is a semblance of confidence going into this film, knowing you’ve got a pre-existing narrative in place, while Boyle – and the cast – have all returned, when...
When Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting first graced our screens in 1996, it transcended expectations spectacularly. It was more than just a movie, it was a cultural event, a film that spoke (well, shouted) directly to an entire generation. So how do you emulate what came before? The answer is, you don’t. You can’t. This eagerly anticipated sequel was never going to have the same impact as the original endeavour, but as long as you bear that in mind there is plenty to take away, for there is no doubting this picture carries that same, familiar swagger that illuminated the original. It’s a worthy follow-up – and that in itself is commendable enough.
Based on Irvine Welsh’s Porno, there is a semblance of confidence going into this film, knowing you’ve got a pre-existing narrative in place, while Boyle – and the cast – have all returned, when...
- 1/20/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ewan McGregor and the rest of the gang are back in Danny Boyle's sequel to Trainspotting. Here's our review of the unexpectedly moving T2...
Time can play cruel tricks. A recent strain of Hollywood movie showed us the cosy side of nostalgia - the dinosaurs roaring again in Jurassic World, the Millennium Falcon taking flight in Star Wars: The Force Awakens - but there can be a bittersweet, even cruel side to the lure of old memories.
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For Renton (Ewan McGregor), heading back to his old stomping ground in Edinburgh after 20 years is akin to opening a box of old photographs. There’s a comfort at seeing old faces, but then the regret starts flooding back: the drugs, the alcohol, the friends he's lost and...
Time can play cruel tricks. A recent strain of Hollywood movie showed us the cosy side of nostalgia - the dinosaurs roaring again in Jurassic World, the Millennium Falcon taking flight in Star Wars: The Force Awakens - but there can be a bittersweet, even cruel side to the lure of old memories.
See related Jessica Jones’ Kilgrave: Marvel’s creepiest villain yet Iron Fist: episode titles and directors confirmed Luke Cage smashed Marvel's 2016 Netflix ratings
For Renton (Ewan McGregor), heading back to his old stomping ground in Edinburgh after 20 years is akin to opening a box of old photographs. There’s a comfort at seeing old faces, but then the regret starts flooding back: the drugs, the alcohol, the friends he's lost and...
- 1/20/2017
- Den of Geek
A rerelease of the 1996 box-office smash finds its tale of Edinburgh heroin addicts looking remarkably fresh faced despite the advancing years
Danny Boyle’s celebrated picture is rereleased in advance of its sequel, due in cinemas in two weeks. What’s interesting, viewing the film now, is how it manages to be both inarguably of its time, the mid 90s, but also has not dated nearly as badly as most youth culture movies tend to. This is at least partly due to Boyle’s canny music choices – Iggy Pop and Lou Reed already had their cool credentials established, while Underworld have maintained a credibility that owes something to their association with this film. What remains to be seen is how much Sick Boy’s unifying theory of life applies to the Trainspotting gang: “At one point, you’ve got it, then you lose it. Then it’s gone for ever.
Danny Boyle’s celebrated picture is rereleased in advance of its sequel, due in cinemas in two weeks. What’s interesting, viewing the film now, is how it manages to be both inarguably of its time, the mid 90s, but also has not dated nearly as badly as most youth culture movies tend to. This is at least partly due to Boyle’s canny music choices – Iggy Pop and Lou Reed already had their cool credentials established, while Underworld have maintained a credibility that owes something to their association with this film. What remains to be seen is how much Sick Boy’s unifying theory of life applies to the Trainspotting gang: “At one point, you’ve got it, then you lose it. Then it’s gone for ever.
- 1/15/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Twenty years after Trainspotting made him a star – and the poster boy of 90s excess – could Ewan McGregor become Renton again?
Recently, I was in a cinema when the trailer for T2, the new Trainspotting film, was played. The whole room erupted into cheers. Perhaps your excitement is not as delirious. There are many who are dismissing the film before it’s even been screened. But I have a feeling that your anticipation levels are linked to how you spent your 1990s. Trainspotting, the 1996 original, remains the quintessential mid-90s movie. Like Oasis and Blur, like Kate Moss and love doves and Firestarter, it was of its time and captured that time’s cynical yet optimistic, hedonistic heart. Though the story was about heroin addicts, the feel of the film recalled different drugs: uppers, hallucinogens, ecstasy. There were real-unreal trippy sequences about losing pills in a toilet or going cold turkey; uplifting,...
Recently, I was in a cinema when the trailer for T2, the new Trainspotting film, was played. The whole room erupted into cheers. Perhaps your excitement is not as delirious. There are many who are dismissing the film before it’s even been screened. But I have a feeling that your anticipation levels are linked to how you spent your 1990s. Trainspotting, the 1996 original, remains the quintessential mid-90s movie. Like Oasis and Blur, like Kate Moss and love doves and Firestarter, it was of its time and captured that time’s cynical yet optimistic, hedonistic heart. Though the story was about heroin addicts, the feel of the film recalled different drugs: uppers, hallucinogens, ecstasy. There were real-unreal trippy sequences about losing pills in a toilet or going cold turkey; uplifting,...
- 1/14/2017
- by Miranda Sawyer
- The Guardian - Film News
This supercharged 1996 story of drugs, violence and growing up has lost none of its edge ahead of the release of sequel T2
Prior to the guys’ Take-That-style reunion in the forthcoming sequel T2, here is a very welcome big-screen rerelease of Danny Boyle’s original Trainspotting, 21 years on. It holds up terrifically well. This movie was the first, maybe the only successful 90s British attempt at answering films like Goodfellas or Pulp Fiction; it has a version of their spirit and power – and matches them for hardcore violence, horror and drugs. But John Hodge’s screenplay, taken from the novel by Irvine Welsh, brings in a grittily British kind of social-realist pessimism. Watching it again, especially during the periodic “family” scenes in pubs after court appearances and funerals, I thought of Ken Loach’s Poor Cow.
Trainspotting is supercharged with sulphurous humour and brutal recklessness: it charges at you like...
Prior to the guys’ Take-That-style reunion in the forthcoming sequel T2, here is a very welcome big-screen rerelease of Danny Boyle’s original Trainspotting, 21 years on. It holds up terrifically well. This movie was the first, maybe the only successful 90s British attempt at answering films like Goodfellas or Pulp Fiction; it has a version of their spirit and power – and matches them for hardcore violence, horror and drugs. But John Hodge’s screenplay, taken from the novel by Irvine Welsh, brings in a grittily British kind of social-realist pessimism. Watching it again, especially during the periodic “family” scenes in pubs after court appearances and funerals, I thought of Ken Loach’s Poor Cow.
Trainspotting is supercharged with sulphurous humour and brutal recklessness: it charges at you like...
- 1/12/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home to find his old friends, Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) waiting for him. Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger. All this action will require the proper... Read More...
- 1/10/2017
- by Sean Wist
- JoBlo.com
As iconic as Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie — and arguably more so — was the music that powered Danny Boyle‘s zeitgeist capturing “Trainspotting.” It launched the mass commercialization of Iggy Pop‘s “Lust For Life,” and for a few years there it seems you couldn’t turn around without bumping into the song, while Underworld‘s “Born Slippy” went from the clubs and into the homes of kids everywhere.
Continue reading ‘T2: Trainspotting’ Soundtrack Includes Iggy Pop, Wolf Alice, Underworld, And More at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘T2: Trainspotting’ Soundtrack Includes Iggy Pop, Wolf Alice, Underworld, And More at The Playlist.
- 1/10/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
2017 Movie Preview: Star Wars Episode VIII, Justice League, Wonder Woman and more2017 Movie Preview: Star Wars Episode VIII, Justice League, Wonder Woman and moreCineplex Magazine1/6/2017 10:00:00 Am
Check out Cineplex Magazine's 2017 movie preview!
Returning Friends
Four movies that transcend the “sequel” label, offering reunions with characters we honestly miss. And, hey, did you notice Ridley Scott and/or Harrison Ford have a connection to three of the four?
T2: Trainspotting
In some ways, Trainspotting is not the type of movie that begs a sequel. The frenetic, scatological story of heroine addicts Renton (Ewan McGregor), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) was hailed as an indie gem when it was released in 1996, and needed no follow-up. But on the other hand, who better to catch up with than those chemical-addled misfits? Have they cleaned themselves up? Have they built enjoyable lives? Director Danny Boyle...
Check out Cineplex Magazine's 2017 movie preview!
Returning Friends
Four movies that transcend the “sequel” label, offering reunions with characters we honestly miss. And, hey, did you notice Ridley Scott and/or Harrison Ford have a connection to three of the four?
T2: Trainspotting
In some ways, Trainspotting is not the type of movie that begs a sequel. The frenetic, scatological story of heroine addicts Renton (Ewan McGregor), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) was hailed as an indie gem when it was released in 1996, and needed no follow-up. But on the other hand, who better to catch up with than those chemical-addled misfits? Have they cleaned themselves up? Have they built enjoyable lives? Director Danny Boyle...
- 1/6/2017
- by Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
Author: Jon Lyus
We’re a few weeks away from catching up with the camaraderie and chaos of the Trainspotting lads. Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle are all returning for Trainspotting 2, or T2 Trainspotting as it’s being called. Danny Boyle is back behind the camera and from the very first trailer the magic is clearly still with the gang.
We return twenty years on from the moment when Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor in his star-making turn) chose life and lifted £20,000 from his band of soon-to-be not so merry men. The trailers have hinted that upon his return to the fold Renton is welcomed back with open palms and closed fists. There’s a tremendous moment in the first trailer which suggests that, despite the two decade gap, nothing has changed for the boys.
Ewan McGregor Talks T2 Trainspotting before he started filming
Two new...
We’re a few weeks away from catching up with the camaraderie and chaos of the Trainspotting lads. Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle are all returning for Trainspotting 2, or T2 Trainspotting as it’s being called. Danny Boyle is back behind the camera and from the very first trailer the magic is clearly still with the gang.
We return twenty years on from the moment when Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor in his star-making turn) chose life and lifted £20,000 from his band of soon-to-be not so merry men. The trailers have hinted that upon his return to the fold Renton is welcomed back with open palms and closed fists. There’s a tremendous moment in the first trailer which suggests that, despite the two decade gap, nothing has changed for the boys.
Ewan McGregor Talks T2 Trainspotting before he started filming
Two new...
- 1/3/2017
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With the release of T2: Trainspotting less than a month away now – on the other side of the pond, at least – the hugely anticipated sequel is moving along steadily with its promotional campaign, which continues today with some slick new Empire Magazine covers.
Each cover highlights one of the main characters, draped in orange, black and white, as they were on the original film’s poster. The first cover features Ewan McGregor’s Renton, the second Robert Carlyle as Begbie, the third Ewen Bremner as Spud, and the fourth sees Jonny Lee Miller as Simon aka “Sick Boy.”
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In addition to these character-centric covers, Empire subscribers will also receive a special one designed by none other than Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop subject Mr. Brainwash. It features the four main characters in a street-art style cover resembling graffiti.
Drawing inspiration from Irvine Welsh’s novel sequel Porno,...
Each cover highlights one of the main characters, draped in orange, black and white, as they were on the original film’s poster. The first cover features Ewan McGregor’s Renton, the second Robert Carlyle as Begbie, the third Ewen Bremner as Spud, and the fourth sees Jonny Lee Miller as Simon aka “Sick Boy.”
See Full Gallery Here
In addition to these character-centric covers, Empire subscribers will also receive a special one designed by none other than Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop subject Mr. Brainwash. It features the four main characters in a street-art style cover resembling graffiti.
Drawing inspiration from Irvine Welsh’s novel sequel Porno,...
- 12/27/2016
- by Will Ashton
- We Got This Covered
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