Filth is, at its core, a combination of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (1992) and Trainspotting (1996). Considering Filth is based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, the author of ...

Joanna Orland is a pop culture journalist and award-winning sound designer for video games. Her career in the Games Industry began in 2005 at EA Criterion. She later worked in the Creative Services ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Comedian and actress Nikki Glaser, host and executive producer of hit Max Original ...

Irvine Welsh made his reputation with both the novel and the filmed version of Trainspotting, with the latter creating the cinematic language that has been borrowed by every adaptation of his work ...

An Edinburgh cop breaks down in gaudy bipolar fashion during the Christmas season in “Filth,” a movie enlivened, not redeemed, by James McAvoy’s damn-the-torpedoes, full-speed-ahead performance.

Last year we got quite the raunchy tease for the crime comedy Filth starring James McAvoy since it was already released in the United Kingdom. Now the film is coming to the United States this spring, ...

Most people think stand-up comics spend decades polishing their act to get good at telling jokes. But for the past 23 years, Steph Tolev has used every ounce of stage time to build up the proper ...

You can see her playing Barb in the second season of Tires, the sitcom starring Shane Gillis. A Toronto native born to Bulgarian immigrants, Tolev had a Juno-nominated comedy album in 2020 and has ...

Video interview emerges in which young sitcom star declares, "I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it." "Two and a Half Men" may be a comedy, but it sure courts its fair share of drama. A ...

FOR MANY YEARS, one of the most well-known sections in Reader’s Digest proclaimed, “Laughter is the Best Medicine.” This became an accepted axiom of the American Way of Life. Apparently, we are way ...