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Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) emerges triumphantly from his toilet dive in Trainspotting. For die-hard fans of Danny Boyle’s 1996 hit Trainspotting, the just-released sequel, T2 Trainspotting ...

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Scottish author Irvine Welsh on Friday described the new sequel to his cult novel "Trainspotting" as an antidote to a world ...

In "Trainspotting," when Mark Renton explains what it's like to shoot heroin to his friend Tommy, he launches into one of Welsh's irades.

Trainspotting not only reflected the enthusiasm of boomtown Britain, but a Scottish culture self-confident enough to set fire to conventional ways of thinking about national identity.

In a lot of ways, Trainspotting 2 is far more clever than the first -- so why is it so damned depressing?