Angela Dawson, Author at Front Row Features

Angela Dawson

Editor/Co-owner

Angela Dawson is the editor and co-owner of frontrowfeatures.com. An award-winning journalist, she has covered Hollywood since 2000. Her interviews with actors, directors, writers, authors and musicians have run in numerous outlets. She is the author of the novel "Generations: A Greek Family Odyssey" available on Amazon.com.

‘Walter Mitty’ Scraps Imagination for Action

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|December 12, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Here’s the secret that apparently eluded the makers of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”: Eliminating the elaborate CGI fantasies that serve as its main advertising draw actually would have improved the movie. This well photographed [...]

A Sweet 16 for ‘The Simpsons’

News TV Features By Angela Dawson|December 6, 2013 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter Just in time for holiday shopping, the 16th season of “The Simpsons,” has arrived on DVD and Blu-ray. This season originally ran on Fox from November 2004 through May of 2005. Professor Frink, Springfield’s beaver-toothed, slightly muddled mad scientist char [...]

Just a Spoonful of Emma Thompson

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|December 5, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Emma Thompson knows how to make an entrance. As the renowned British actress arrives for a press conference in the ballroom of a tony Beverly Hills hotel to promote her new Disney movie “Saving Mr. Banks,” she climbs over the dais to her seat rather t [...]

Bale, Affleck Generate Heat in ‘Furnace’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 30, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Christian Bale and Casey Affleck play brothers struggling to survive in a dying Pennsylvania steel town, who face an even bigger threat when one of the siblings crosses a local crime boss (played by Woody Harrelson). Bale plays Russell Baze, a hardwor [...]

Bruce Dern Enlivens ‘Nebraska’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 20, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bruce Dern has been a workhorse character actor throughout his career, which has spanned five decades and more than 80 films as well as dozens of guest starring roles on TV. He’s primarily known for playing offbeat characters, heroic and villainous, a [...]

EXCLUSIVE: A ‘Dear’ Look at Calvin & Hobbes

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 20, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Calvin & Hobbes, a comic strip featuring an adventuresome and imaginative boy and his beloved toy tiger, began appearing in newspapers in 1985, and quickly became one of the most popular strips of all time. It ran only 10 years before its creator, [...]

‘The Wolverine’ Unleashed in Extended Edition

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|November 19, 2013 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Reporter HOLLYWOOD—“The Wolverine” Unleashed Extended Edition debuts on Digital HD today and on Blu-ray and DVD on Dec. 3. It features an extended unrated cut with more intense action than the theatrical release did earlier this year. Hugh Jackman appears as the icon [...]

Jennifer Lawrence On Fire in ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 18, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jennifer Lawrence gets emotional as she recalls a “Hunger Games” fan she met on the set while shooting the movie’s sequel “Catching Fire.” “There was a girl who was an extra and she was covered in scars—she’d been burned—and I remember her coming up t [...]

Kristen Bell Sings Praises of ‘Frozen,’ ‘Mars’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 18, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kristen Bell provides the voice of a perky princess named Anna, who desperately wants to connect with her inexplicably icy older sister in Disney’s new animated adventure “Frozen.” The youngest of three, Bell could relate to the love-hate relationship [...]

Vince Vaughn Makes a Special ‘Delivery’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|November 16, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Motormouth actor Vince Vaughn, best known for his performances in comedies like “Old School” and “The Wedding Crashers,” has returned to his somewhat more serious roots in the dramedy “Delivery Man.” In it he plays David Wozniak, a meat delivery man, [...]