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Trainspotting 30 years later: 10 surprising facts about a cult classic

Three decades ago, Ewan McGregor's Mark Renton decided to ‘choose life’, and cinema will never be able to thank him enough. The odyssey of this young Scotsman, whose only ambition was to sink into a pit of heroin and betrayal, burst onto UK...

March 2026: The best TV and streaming premieres

This March is shaping up to be an important month for television and streaming, with an exciting list of premieres that promise to take over our screens.  Over the coming weeks, we'll see a wide range of new series spanning a variety of genres:...

“There is a lot of meat to this story”: King Sorrow by Joe Hill

People say that writing a big, fat novel is hard. As a person who is currently writing a big, fat novel - I tend to agree. However, as writer Junot Díaz once observed, the novel can take a lot of punishment. Poetry and short stories cannot. Every...

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