T2: Trainspotting

Review by Bob Ignizio

In 1996, Danny Boyle became a name brand director with his second feature, TRAINSPOTTING. It was a bold, energetic, edgy, fun, crazy piece of filmmaking that also put star Ewan MacGregor on the map. It's a near perfect film from beginning to end, and I doubt many viewers felt that it needed a sequel.

Nonetheless, Irvine Walsh, author of the novel that was the basis for Boyle's film, wrote a sequel called 'Porno' in 2002. And now Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge have whipped up a sequel of their own, only loosely based on Welsh's novel, with T2: TRAINSPOTTING.

Aside from Boyle and Hodge, the film also reunites the cast of the original. And while it may not be "necessary", for anyone who enjoyed spending time with those seriously damaged yet somehow endearing characters, it's not a bad way to kill two hours.

Perfect Sense (now on video)

[PERFECT SENSE is now available on home video.]

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

Earlier this year Bob Ignizio expressed a marked lack of enthusiasm for yet another art-house end-of-the-world movie. It wasn't MELANCHOLIA - that one was good, evidently - it was some sort of genre relation with lots of numbers in the title.

Well, just to show Bob that we feel his pain, and that he doesn't have to suffer through every mopey, Sundance-acclaimed, Cedar Lee-playing emo-type dramas about the end of the world from an average doomed soul's POV, I'll dump all over PERFECT SENSE, yeah, even though it bids to be more serious and grownup than the usual CGI zombie/meteor apocalypse.