With writer-director Thomas Bezucha’s Let Him Go opening this weekend, I recently had the opportunity to talk with Kevin Costner about his work in the fiery thriller. Based on the novel of the same name by Larry Watson, Let Him Go follows a retired sheriff named George Blackledge (Costner) and his wife Margaret (Diane Lane) who set out to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas, headed by matriarch Blanche Weboy (Lesley Manville). When they discover the Weboys have no intention of letting the child go, George …

It's not until perhaps midway through Hollywood that the intent behind Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's star-studded limited series becomes clear — to not just tell a story about the history of the Golden Age of cinema, but to rewrite it. This brazenly optimistic take on a different kind of studio system, one that champions women, LGBTQ people, and people of color, is a beautiful fantasy, but the season ends just as the repercussions of this alternate history are just beginning to be felt. So it's worth digging into what exactly the writers of Hollywood changed about …