Kodi v16 & v17 -- Read whatever the local jpg is named

Hello.

I am new to the forum and a relatively new Kodi user (v16).  I am making the switch from WDTV since they pulled the plug on this product and am now using an android media center box to play my shows and movies.

That said, I have a 4TB drive filled with various folders for each movie/series that I own and in each directory there is 1 or more jpg files.  For example, for a given movie folder, the following exists:

The.13th.warrior.mp4
The.13th.warrior.English.srt
The13th.warrior.jpg

I want Kodi to read and display my local jpg file without fetching anything from the web, but with the FAQ and add-on's i used from kodi wiki, everything seems to point me to loading something from an external webpage.  I simply want Kodi to read the matching jpg file to the filename and display that when I highlight the movie name (just like my WDTV box used to).  Is there a simple want to accomplish this?

It's not much different than a series folder, except each file has a jpg file associated with its name:

S01E01.Walking.Dead.mp4
S01E01.Walking.Dead.jpg
S01E01.Walking.Dead.English.srt
S01E02.Walking.Dead.mp4
S01E02.Walking.Dead.jpg
S01E02.Walking.Dead.English.srt
so on and so forth

Again, I'd like each respsective file to read the associated jpg that has the same name as the file.

I do certainly appreciate any insights or assistance anybody can provide.

Thank you in advance.

Steve