Director Danny Boyle’s multi-award-winning 1996 film, based on the novel by Irvine Walsh, is rightly acknowledged to be one of the most original and imaginative films to come out of Britain in the Nineties. Arguably, though, it ultimately turned out to be less influential and less popular than the equally famous, yet lesser British work of the time, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998).

Its extreme story, set in a decidedly non-tourist Edinburgh that wouldn’t please the city fathers or the tourist board, is a relentless, unforgiving one of life in a hell of extreme drug-taking, survival, scams, friendship and tragedies...