{"id":953195,"date":"2026-05-11T18:54:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953195\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:54:39","slug":"the-rivals-of-amziah-king-trailer-matthew-mcconaughey-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953195\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Rivals of Amziah King’ Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a lot to parse about \u201cThe Rivals of Amziah King<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Vast of Night\u201d filmmaker Andrew Patterson\u2019s sophomore feature<\/a>, which is positively buzzing with elements as seemingly disparate as \u201cMatthew McConaughey<\/a> is a beekeeper\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s also kind of a musical\u201d and \u201coh, it also gets pretty violent.\u201d <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hand it off to the film<\/a>\u2018s official synopsis to get us on solid ground: \u201cSet within the deep backwoods of rural Oklahoma, the film follows the charismatic and musically gifted Amziah King (McConaughey) who herds a bluegrass-playing band of misfits while overseeing the premier honey-making operation in town. When Amziah\u2019s estranged foster daughter (Angelina LookingGlass) unexpectedly returns, he leaps at the possibility to renew connection and creating a family business. But the honey game is ruthless, and Amziah\u2019s rivals threaten to destroy everything he has built.\u201d The film also stars Kurt Russell, Cole Sprouse, Tony Revolori,\u00a0and\u00a0Owen Teague. <\/p>\n

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The film premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film and TV Festival, where our own Ryan Lattanzio<\/a> called it an earnest crowdpleaser. He also hailed its production value<\/a> (no surprise, coming from Patterson), writing, \u201cVistas of the Oklahoma landscape, and Patterson\u2019s tenderness for the Choctaw Nation in the former of a former foster child named Ketari (newcomer Angelina LookingGlass), indicate a filmmaker with a no-doubt strong vision, each take (and there are many) embodying a sense of having been precisely storyboarded and choreographed.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also noted that the film \u201cdetours into energetically cut and staged musical sequences that feel like chopped-and-screwed John Carney, friends and family gathering in a living room to belt out bluegrass tunes that become earworms of their own. \u2026 Seeing McConaughey in a sorta-musical has its own obvious pleasures, the actor going all in on a character in ways he rarely has in years, even if his sweaty swagger and smarmy charisma feel like only familiar comforts. There\u2019s too much movie here, but isn\u2019t that better than none at all? Patterson\u2019s big swings in filmmaking transcend the occasional shakier sum of their parts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black Bear will release the film in theaters on Friday, August 14. Check out the first trailer for \u201cThe Rivals of Amziah King\u201d below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a lot to parse about \u201cThe Rivals of Amziah King,\u201d \u201cThe Vast of Night\u201d filmmaker Andrew Patterson\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[266029,77,3063,62895,3943,266030,739,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-953195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-andrew-patterson","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-matthew-mcconaughey","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-rivals-of-amziah-king","14":"tag-trailers","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116557465051311611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}