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 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.

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.

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

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

"Americana," co-starring Paul Walter Hauser, Sydney Sweeney and Halsey, opens in theaters Friday, Aug. 15. INDIANAPOLIS — A modern-day noir Western unfolds in writer/director Tony Tost's feature film debut called "Americana."

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

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.