Trainspotting News

Do you like your sexy Scottish lads relatively clean-shaven with reddish hair or sporting a mustache and a soul patch with spiky black hair? Ewan McGregor will play the leader of a gang of outlaws in the film Jane Got a Gun , and he was spotted on Tuesday in West Hollywood sporting his edgy new look.

The actor, who made his name in the adaptation of Irvine Welsh's book Trainspotting, opened up at a screening of the 1996 film, says Metro.

Trainspotting, the saga of a bunch of junkies cutting a swath through Edinburgh, became an instant classic of British cinema.

Is the water-dwelling beast known as Nessie just an old salt's tale, or could there be something real to the legend of the mythical beast? That's the question posed by the new film looking to delve into those waters of mystery.

TOURISM industry leaders have predicted that the Hebrides are set to be the next location to benefit from the "Balamory effect" - thanks to a new wildlife documentary fronted by Ewan McGregor.

Jamaican poet and author Olive Senior at NGC Bocas Lit Fest 2013. Photos courtesy Maria Nunes/NGC Bocas Lit Fest If literature festivals were like rock concerts, then the headliners of the 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest were definitely Jamaican poet and fiction writer Olive Senior and Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh.

THIS is the second half of movie reviewer Leigh Paatsch's 100 must-see movies. You'll find the countdown to Number 1 in Saturday's print edition of The Courier-Mail. Unbelievably, this was the first film to bring together DeNiro and Pacino, and the scene where they finally come face-to-face a lengthy exchange in a late-night diner is the true ... (more)

The rain came down on Port-of-Spain like the media on Jack Warner last Friday afternoon.

A new production of Simon Donald's The Life of Stuff has been acclaimed at Theatre503, earning three nominations for the Offie Awards.

Having never seen any other Danny Boyle directed film all the way through prior to Trance , it is hard to say exactly where this latest effort ranks within his filmography.

He learnt a few things about being in front of the camera from Ewan McGregor, so Soa "The Hulk" Palelei has returned the favour by showing the Trainspotting star a few moves in the boxing ring.

Ewan Mcgregor has urged his fans to join in a mass demonstration against world hunger in London in June .