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),

Americana weaves suspense and bloodshed utilizing a tight script and an impressive ensemble cast led by Sweeney and Hauser.

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.

"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.

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

John C. Reilly, renowned for work including "Step Brothers" and "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," will host this year's Americana Honors & Awards in Nashville.