Trainspotting will make you laugh. Trainspotting will make you cry. Trainspotting will plunge you so deep into the netherworld of heroin addiction that you will leave the theater checking your arms for track marks.

It was snowing when I woke up Sunday morning. Snowing in that particular, half-beautiful, half-devastating way that makes you want to stay under your covers all day and sip hot cocoa, watching the flakes from inside without actually meeting them face to face.

Watching Pineapple Express, you might wonder if you've seen it before; more likely, you've seen one of its many inspirations. If you can digest the fact that you're not being dished out any original fare, the film delivers plenty of fun.

Maria Full of Grace is a hyper-realistic, unsentimental, disturbingly honest exploration of one of the methods that drugs are smuggled into the United States. After writer-director Joshua Marston created the script for this, his debut film, he spent time in both Columbia and the Columbian neighborhoods of New York before filming.