T2 Trainspotting

Danny Boyle brings the Trainspotting gang back together 20 years later when Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) decides to take a stroll down memory line in T2 Trainspotting. Doing a sequel to a film 21 years on is always going to be an uphill struggle because what worked back then doesn’t necessarily work now. There will…

EIFF 2015 – The Legend of Barney Thomson

,The 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) kicked off for me with The Legend of Barney Thomson, the first feature film to be directed by Robert Carlyle. Carlyle also takes the lead as an unassuming barber named Barney Thomson who is heavily unappreciated in his job. An opening monologue relays that he would rather just…