T2: Trainspotting

Playing with memory — the characters’ and our own — allows Mr. Boyle and his cinematographer, Anthony Dod Mantle, to conjure some of the movie’s loveliest, most melancholy images.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle’s followup to the cult 1996 hit isn’t quite as quick and extraordinary as the original, but it is a funny, moving ode to middle-aged male disillusion whose risks pay off in spades.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle’s followup to the cult 1996 hit isn’t quite as quick and extraordinary as the original, but it is a funny, moving ode to middle-aged male disillusion whose risks pay off in spades.

2953d ago

Back in 1996, the opening moments of Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting were like a blast of adrenaline.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle’s followup to the cult 1996 hit isn’t quite as quick and extraordinary as the original, but it is a funny, moving ode to middle-aged male disillusion whose risks pay off in spades.

2953d ago

Back in 1996, the opening moments of Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting were like a blast of adrenaline.

2953d ago

Back in 1996, the opening moments of Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting were like a blast of adrenaline.

2953d ago

Playing with memory — the characters’ and our own — allows Mr. Boyle and his cinematographer, Anthony Dod Mantle, to conjure some of the movie’s loveliest, most melancholy images.

2953d ago

Playing with memory — the characters’ and our own — allows Mr. Boyle and his cinematographer, Anthony Dod Mantle, to conjure some of the movie’s loveliest, most melancholy images.

2953d ago

Its virtuosity, wit, fleet performances and cool self-awareness notwithstanding, T2 doesn’t feel like a necessary film as much as a respectful and respectable exercise in fan service.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle and original 'Trainspotting' cast reunite to revisit their era-defining Nineties characters in their regret-filled middle age.

2953d ago

The original Trainspotting came at the end of nearly twenty years of Conservative rule in the UK, a time when the Scottish independence movement was emerging (it was given its own parliament three years later), and established long-held structures in British culture were crumbling just before Tony Blair’s New Labour ushered into power.

2953d ago

The original Trainspotting came at the end of nearly twenty years of Conservative rule in the UK, a time when the Scottish independence movement was emerging (it was given its own parliament three years later), and established long-held structures in British culture were crumbling just before Tony Blair’s New Labour ushered into power.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle and original 'Trainspotting' cast reunite to revisit their era-defining Nineties characters in their regret-filled middle age.

2953d ago

Its virtuosity, wit, fleet performances and cool self-awareness notwithstanding, T2 doesn’t feel like a necessary film as much as a respectful and respectable exercise in fan service.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle and original 'Trainspotting' cast reunite to revisit their era-defining Nineties characters in their regret-filled middle age.

2953d ago

Its virtuosity, wit, fleet performances and cool self-awareness notwithstanding, T2 doesn’t feel like a necessary film as much as a respectful and respectable exercise in fan service.

2953d ago

The original Trainspotting came at the end of nearly twenty years of Conservative rule in the UK, a time when the Scottish independence movement was emerging (it was given its own parliament three years later), and established long-held structures in British culture were crumbling just before Tony Blair’s New Labour ushered into power.

2953d ago

The original Trainspotting came at the end of nearly twenty years of Conservative rule in the UK, a time when the Scottish independence movement was emerging (it was given its own parliament three years later), and established long-held structures in British culture were crumbling just before Tony Blair’s New Labour ushered into power.

2953d ago

Its virtuosity, wit, fleet performances and cool self-awareness notwithstanding, T2 doesn’t feel like a necessary film as much as a respectful and respectable exercise in fan service.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle and original 'Trainspotting' cast reunite to revisit their era-defining Nineties characters in their regret-filled middle age.

2953d ago

No one likes getting old, and unless you can laugh about it, you're doomed. In 1996 Danny Boyle made a brash, bratty film out of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, tracing the depraved high jinks of feckless heroin addicts in a depressed section of Edinburgh.

2953d ago

No one likes getting old, and unless you can laugh about it, you're doomed. In 1996 Danny Boyle made a brash, bratty film out of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, tracing the depraved high jinks of feckless heroin addicts in a depressed section of Edinburgh.

2953d ago

In the end, it ends up feeling like going to a festival headlining date by a reunited Britpop band. It’s great to see them back together, they look pretty good for their age, and there are transcendent moments when they play the hits.

2953d ago

In the end, it ends up feeling like going to a festival headlining date by a reunited Britpop band. It’s great to see them back together, they look pretty good for their age, and there are transcendent moments when they play the hits.

2953d ago

In the end, it ends up feeling like going to a festival headlining date by a reunited Britpop band. It’s great to see them back together, they look pretty good for their age, and there are transcendent moments when they play the hits.

2953d ago

No one likes getting old, and unless you can laugh about it, you're doomed. In 1996 Danny Boyle made a brash, bratty film out of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, tracing the depraved high jinks of feckless heroin addicts in a depressed section of Edinburgh.

2953d ago

In the end, it ends up feeling like going to a festival headlining date by a reunited Britpop band. It’s great to see them back together, they look pretty good for their age, and there are transcendent moments when they play the hits.

2953d ago

No one likes getting old, and unless you can laugh about it, you're doomed. In 1996 Danny Boyle made a brash, bratty film out of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, tracing the depraved high jinks of feckless heroin addicts in a depressed section of Edinburgh.

2953d ago

The decades-later sequel T2 Trainspotting chooses nostalgia.

2953d ago

The decades-later sequel T2 Trainspotting chooses nostalgia.

2953d ago

The decades-later sequel T2 Trainspotting chooses nostalgia.

2953d ago

The decades-later sequel T2 Trainspotting chooses nostalgia.

2953d ago

After living in Amsterdam for the past twenty years on the loot from his 1996 drug swindle, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Edinburgh to reconnect with old pals Spud/Daniel (Ewen Bremner) and Sick Boy/Simon (Jonny Lee Miller). Yet as he and Sick Boy move into a business partnership, Begbie (Robert Carlyle), the psycho he double crossed, escapes from prison.

2953d ago

Renton, Begbie, Sickboy and Spud are older but barely wiser in an OK sequel that turns disappointment into a dominant theme.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle's sequel is more than just a trip down memory lane.

2953d ago

The gang’s all here, but T2’s crazed storyline (by screenwriter John Hodge, adapting from Irvine Welsh’s novels) packs a walloping emotional punch.

2953d ago

After living in Amsterdam for the past twenty years on the loot from his 1996 drug swindle, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Edinburgh to reconnect with old pals Spud/Daniel (Ewen Bremner) and Sick Boy/Simon (Jonny Lee Miller). Yet as he and Sick Boy move into a business partnership, Begbie (Robert Carlyle), the psycho he double crossed, escapes from prison.

2953d ago

After living in Amsterdam for the past twenty years on the loot from his 1996 drug swindle, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Edinburgh to reconnect with old pals Spud/Daniel (Ewen Bremner) and Sick Boy/Simon (Jonny Lee Miller). Yet as he and Sick Boy move into a business partnership, Begbie (Robert Carlyle), the psycho he double crossed, escapes from prison.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor reunite for another descent into Edinburgh's unpretty underworld — but the heroin chic has long worn off.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle's sequel is more than just a trip down memory lane.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor reunite for another descent into Edinburgh's unpretty underworld — but the heroin chic has long worn off.

2953d ago

Renton, Begbie, Sickboy and Spud are older but barely wiser in an OK sequel that turns disappointment into a dominant theme.

2953d ago

The gang’s all here, but T2’s crazed storyline (by screenwriter John Hodge, adapting from Irvine Welsh’s novels) packs a walloping emotional punch.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle's sequel is more than just a trip down memory lane.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle's T2 Trainspotting is a diverting nostalgia exercise, to be sure, but it never really justifies its own existence.

2953d ago

Renton, Begbie, Sickboy and Spud are older but barely wiser in an OK sequel that turns disappointment into a dominant theme.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle's T2 Trainspotting is a diverting nostalgia exercise, to be sure, but it never really justifies its own existence.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor reunite for another descent into Edinburgh's unpretty underworld — but the heroin chic has long worn off.

2953d ago

The gang’s all here, but T2’s crazed storyline (by screenwriter John Hodge, adapting from Irvine Welsh’s novels) packs a walloping emotional punch.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle's T2 Trainspotting is a diverting nostalgia exercise, to be sure, but it never really justifies its own existence.

2953d ago

After living in Amsterdam for the past twenty years on the loot from his 1996 drug swindle, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Edinburgh to reconnect with old pals Spud/Daniel (Ewen Bremner) and Sick Boy/Simon (Jonny Lee Miller). Yet as he and Sick Boy move into a business partnership, Begbie (Robert Carlyle), the psycho he double crossed, escapes from prison.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle's sequel is more than just a trip down memory lane.

2953d ago

The gang’s all here, but T2’s crazed storyline (by screenwriter John Hodge, adapting from Irvine Welsh’s novels) packs a walloping emotional punch.

2953d ago

Renton, Begbie, Sickboy and Spud are older but barely wiser in an OK sequel that turns disappointment into a dominant theme.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor reunite for another descent into Edinburgh's unpretty underworld — but the heroin chic has long worn off.

2953d ago

Danny Boyle's T2 Trainspotting is a diverting nostalgia exercise, to be sure, but it never really justifies its own existence.

2953d ago

T2 seeks to recreate its forbear’s blend of grime, bliss, rebellion, and cynicism in a more globalized Scotland.

2953d ago

If you long for the gritty charms of mid-‘90s indie cinema in general and “Trainspotting” specifically, “T2 Trainspotting” gives you exactly that. And by “exactly,” we really do mean “exactly.”

2953d ago

If you long for the gritty charms of mid-‘90s indie cinema in general and “Trainspotting” specifically, “T2 Trainspotting” gives you exactly that. And by “exactly,” we really do mean “exactly.”

2953d ago

Ewan McGregor and the gang reteam with director Danny Boyle for the long-awaited sequel to 1996 Brit hit 'Trainspotting.'

2953d ago

T2 seeks to recreate its forbear’s blend of grime, bliss, rebellion, and cynicism in a more globalized Scotland.

2953d ago

Ewan McGregor and the gang reteam with director Danny Boyle for the long-awaited sequel to 1996 Brit hit 'Trainspotting.'

2953d ago

Consider, before you consider anything else about the sequel to Trainspotting, that the director of both films is an artist whose signal trait had been a seeming repulsion at the thought of ever going back to the well.

2953d ago

T2 seeks to recreate its forbear’s blend of grime, bliss, rebellion, and cynicism in a more globalized Scotland.

2953d ago

I’ll say this about heroin addicts: They generally don’t hang around boring you in middle age.

2953d ago

If you long for the gritty charms of mid-‘90s indie cinema in general and “Trainspotting” specifically, “T2 Trainspotting” gives you exactly that. And by “exactly,” we really do mean “exactly.”

2953d ago

Ewan McGregor and the gang reteam with director Danny Boyle for the long-awaited sequel to 1996 Brit hit 'Trainspotting.'

2953d ago

T2 cannot hope to break the mold, as “Trainspotting” did, but Boyle and his cast rifle eagerly through the shards: a motley of plot scraps, crazed camera angles, flashbacks, trips, sight gags, and musical yelps.

2953d ago

T2 seeks to recreate its forbear’s blend of grime, bliss, rebellion, and cynicism in a more globalized Scotland.

2953d ago

Consider, before you consider anything else about the sequel to Trainspotting, that the director of both films is an artist whose signal trait had been a seeming repulsion at the thought of ever going back to the well.

2953d ago

T2 cannot hope to break the mold, as “Trainspotting” did, but Boyle and his cast rifle eagerly through the shards: a motley of plot scraps, crazed camera angles, flashbacks, trips, sight gags, and musical yelps.

2953d ago

Ewan McGregor and the gang reteam with director Danny Boyle for the long-awaited sequel to 1996 Brit hit 'Trainspotting.'

2953d ago

T2 cannot hope to break the mold, as “Trainspotting” did, but Boyle and his cast rifle eagerly through the shards: a motley of plot scraps, crazed camera angles, flashbacks, trips, sight gags, and musical yelps.

2953d ago

If you long for the gritty charms of mid-‘90s indie cinema in general and “Trainspotting” specifically, “T2 Trainspotting” gives you exactly that. And by “exactly,” we really do mean “exactly.”

2953d ago

Consider, before you consider anything else about the sequel to Trainspotting, that the director of both films is an artist whose signal trait had been a seeming repulsion at the thought of ever going back to the well.

2953d ago

I’ll say this about heroin addicts: They generally don’t hang around boring you in middle age.

2953d ago

T2 cannot hope to break the mold, as “Trainspotting” did, but Boyle and his cast rifle eagerly through the shards: a motley of plot scraps, crazed camera angles, flashbacks, trips, sight gags, and musical yelps.

2953d ago

Consider, before you consider anything else about the sequel to Trainspotting, that the director of both films is an artist whose signal trait had been a seeming repulsion at the thought of ever going back to the well.

2953d ago

I’ll say this about heroin addicts: They generally don’t hang around boring you in middle age.

2953d ago

I’ll say this about heroin addicts: They generally don’t hang around boring you in middle age.

2953d ago