Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Jen Yamato and I spoke to a number of Jones’ friends and colleagues to learn why his death ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

At this point, when it comes to making a film about child abuse, it’s difficult to find a new and interesting mode to tell the story. It’s a loaded proposition because it’s such a raw idea to so many ...

Actress Ellen Travolta and a regional foster youth nonprofit will host a 2 p.m. Sunday fundraiser featuring the film, “Short Term 12,” in Coeur d’Alene. Shown at Regal Theater at the Village at ...

Brie Larson, 23, gives a performance in new indie Short Term 12 that's wonderfully nuanced. The Oscars should keep her in mind. In Short Term 12, out in theaters right now, Larson plays Grace, a ...

The latest contender for the indie slot at nomination time, “Short Term 12” takes viewers into the world of teen foster-care institutions, focusing both on troubled residents in limbo and on staff ...

A 20-something supervising staff member of a foster care facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.

“Short Term 12” is a small miracle of a film. Writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton takes one of society’s most serious subjects – its abused and neglected children – and puts them in a movie with so ...