INDIANAPOLIS — 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 ...

Tony Tost's Tarantino-inspired crime caper (now streaming) is an ultraviolent, surprisingly heartfelt effort despite its lamentable reputation.

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 black market ...

The crowded western crime noir “Americana” has had a curious journey to your local theater. Filmed in early 2022 and premiered at the SXSW festival in 2023, it’s getting a theatrical release on the ...

Tony Tost believes that Americana has been "gobbled up by the zeitgeist". The 50-year-old filmmaker's picture - which stars Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser and Halsey - has tanked at the box office ...

Sweeney stars as Penny Jo, a South Dakota diner waitress with an appealing smile, an ingratiating stammer, a scarf in her hair, and deep reserves of ruthless ambition.

Tony Tost is defending his directorial feature debut Americana in the wake of star Sydney Sweeney's many controversies. Billed as a modern-day western, the film concerns an eclectic group of ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. It takes a little while, maybe as much as half the movie, to adjust the self-conscious rhythms of Americana, a multi ...

Tony Tost, who lives part of the year in Fayetteville, has a degree in literature from the University of Arkansas in creative writing and wrote his doctoral dissertation at Duke on the innovations of ...