‘Yellowstone’ Star’s 98-Minute Western Officially Rides Onto Digital

Nairavoice | Nov 8, 2026 55m ago 76 0 6 min read

‘Yellowstone’ Star’s 98-Minute Western Officially Rides Onto Digital

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After failing to make the most of its lengthy theatrical window, a new Western featuring a trio of leading men is all set for a digital release. This is where the movie will likely find an audience, given how popular Westerns have become on streaming. In recent years, Taylor Sheridan‘s ever-expanding Yellowstone franchise has kept Paramount+ afloat almost singlehandedly, even though the service hosts a sprawling universe of Star Trek shows. Following the success of Yellowstone, other platforms have invested purposefully in the genre as well.

In fact, the new movie features a Yellowstone cast member, Neal McDonough. He is joined by Tommy Lee Jones, who headlined perhaps the greatest neo-Western of the 21st century, No Country for Old Men. The lead role is played by Zachary Levi. He rose to fame thanks to the television series Chuck and then went on to star in the now-defunct DC Extended Universe franchise. However, his public outbursts and political views have pushed him out of the mainstream in recent years.

Levi seems to be targeting the faith-based demographic, which has been growing in significance in the last half a decade. His new movie was distributed by Angel Studios, an outfit specializing in faith-based content. Angel has been trying to go mainstream with star-driven genre movies with religious undertones, much like the recent film Runner — which featured Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson — and the new Western starring Levi.

Four icons and four completely different ways of walking into trouble.
This is the one you would have been out there, why it fits, and what it would have cost you.

You have never explained yourself and you have never needed to,
because people work out fairly quickly that you are the most capable person in the room
without you ever having to mention it.

Eastwood built the character out of everything he refused to do, stripping away the
backstory, the speeches and every bit of reassurance until only the competence was left.
You keep your own counsel, and while other people occasionally find that unnerving, you
have never felt any real need to fix it for them.
The Dollars films work because he genuinely is in it for himself right up until the
moment he is not, and he never explains that part either.
You would be gone before anybody got a chance to thank you.

You are the funniest person in most rooms and the most loyal
person in all of them, and you would be genuinely insulted if somebody suggested those two
things were in any tension.

Doc has no real reason to be in this fight beyond the fact that his friend is in it,
which is the only reason he has ever needed for anything.
You lead with wit, and it does a very effective job of hiding how seriously you take the
handful of people you actually care about.
Val Kilmer’s performance is the most quoted in the entire genre because the jokes keep
getting sharper as the situation gets worse.
You would spend everything you had on this and still describe it as a good week.

You never wanted this job, and you took it anyway because the
alternative was standing there watching somebody less careful do it badly, which is the most
Western reason there has ever been.

Earp is the reluctant authority figure, a man who came to town specifically to be left
alone and somehow ended up answerable for all of it.
You are protective by instinct, so when something goes wrong your first thought is who
is exposed rather than who is to blame.
These films understand that keeping order costs far more than breaking it, and that the
person holding the line almost never gets thanked.
You would do the whole thing again, and you would complain about it the entire time.

Nobody has ever successfully talked you out of something you had
already decided was right, and a long line of grown adults has found that out the hard way.

Mattie is the most relentless character in the Western canon and she manages it through
argument, paperwork and flat refusal rather than a fast draw.
You have no patience for being managed, so you negotiate, you check the details and you
turn up exactly when you said you would.
True Grit is the rare Western where the moral centre is the youngest person on screen
and every adult around her has to catch up.
You would get what you came for, and the film is honest about what that takes out of
you.

There’s a New Western in Town

We’re talking, of course, about Angel and the Badman. The movie serves as a remake of a 1947 film starring John Wayne, and follows an injured gunslinger who is nursed back to health by a woman and her family, while he’s hunted by a villainous adversary. The movie received relatively poor reviews and is now sitting at a 23% critics’ score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. However, like most faith-based films, it received a better score from audiences.

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Angel and the Badman holds a 78% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which will no doubt come in handy on the PVOD market. The film became available to rent and purchase at home on November 6. The movie wasn’t a huge hit at the box office, grossing roughly $4 million in its domestic run, which lasted less than a month. On the day before its digital debut, Angel and the Badman generated around $1,300 nationwide, with a per-theater average of just $24. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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