A modern-day noir Western unfolds in writer/director Tony Tost's feature film debut called "Americana." The lives of a shy waitress with big dreams (Sydney Sweeney), a lovelorn military veteran (Paul Walter Hauser),

Writer-director Tony Tost’s feature film debut, Americana, is a modern-day Western about a South Dakota waitress and aspiring country singer The post Writer-Director Tony Tost’s Long Road Trip to Americana appeared first on MovieMaker Magazine.

Tony Tost's tense debut plays like a genre-blurring ’90s crime thriller, as Sydney Sweeney, Simon Rex, Halsey's characters try to steal a ghost shirt.

Tony Tost combines all the elements of American culture that stand out, entertain, confound, and hurt so many of us. The Sydney Sweeney starrer couldn’t come at a more opportune moment.

There are plenty of opportunities for Americana to fall into crime-movie cutesiness, but its cast and Western bona fides keep it fun.

Lionsgate’s newest film, Americana, follows the local outsiders and outcasts of a small South Dakota town as their lives violently intertwine when a rare Lakota Ghost shirt falls onto the

"Fantastic Four" and "Naked Gun" star Paul Walter Hauser told UPI the character he plays in the contemporary western "Americana," is a man out of time.

Ahead of Filmland, which runs from Aug. 13-17, we spoke with filmmaker Tony Tost about his connections to The Natural State and the making of "Americana," starring Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser and pop singer Halsey.

Americana is as superficial a take on Tarantino and Coen-style indie crime as the freckles and Party City wig on Sydney Sweeney.