Angela Dawson, Author at Front Row Features

Angela Dawson

Editor/Co-owner

Angela Dawson is an award-winning journalist and 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.

‘This is 40’ Now Available on Blu-ray

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|March 18, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features There’s a moment in Judd Apatow’s comedy “This is 40,” the spinoff to “Knocked Up,” where Leslie Mann (Apatow’s real life wife and the stalwart star of the movie) is driving home, having just confirmed she is pregnant again at the ripe old age of 39. Upset with [...]

Gomez and Hudgens ‘Spring’ Forth

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—You can’t walk past a newsstand or flip past a TV talk show without seeing former Disney Channel stars Selena Gomez or Vanessa Hudgens touting their new movie, the edgy and definitely R-rated “Spring Breakers.” Like previous Mouse House alums Britney [...]

An Alternate View of Kirsten Dunst in ‘Upside Down’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 14, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kirsten Dunst made cinematic history by planting an upside down smooch on on co-star Tobey Maguire in his superhero costume in “Spider-Man.” The 30-year-old actress once again goes head-over-heels for her onscreen beau in “Upside Down.” In fact, she s [...]

EXCLUSIVE: A New ‘Reality’ for Matteo Garrone

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 13, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—While the world’s Catholics waited in anticipation for the cardinals to elect a new pope back in his native Italy, filmmaker Matteo Garrone was in the U.S. promoting his newest film “Reality,” which won the Grand Prix prize at Cannes last year. Coinci [...]

Carrey Conjures Mean Magician in ‘Burt Wonderstone’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 11, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features LAS VEGAS—When Jim Carrey was still just a young stand up comic, he got a chance to open for Rodney Dangerfield at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. With a desire to do more than put on the same act every night, the young Canadian would try out some mighty [...]

Call Goes Out for Future Tony Starks

News By Angela Dawson|March 8, 2013 |0

By A Front Row Features Staff Reporter HOLLYWOOD—Hey kids, it’s time to channel your inner Iron Man/Tony Stark and let your inventing imagination go wild. Discovery Science Center, Broadcom Foundation and Marvel Studios, along with Visa Signature and the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, have team [...]

China Girl Brings Heart to Not-So-Great ‘Oz’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|March 7, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Almost an hour of Disney’s “Oz The Great and Powerful” goes by before this campy and inconsistent prequel introduces its real star. Forget flakey James Franco’s hammy would-be wizard, vacantly wide-eyed Mila Kunis as a conflic [...]

Arnel Pineda Never Stopped Believin’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 6, 2013 |0

By PETERSON GONZAGA and CHRIS TRONDSEN Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In 2007, veteran musician Arnel Pineda was on the brink of giving up on his dream of becoming a worldwide success. At 40, the Philippines native had enjoyed some modest success at home and in Hong Kong, but after years of perform [...]

Colin Farrell Plays Helpful Neighbor in ‘Dead Man Down’

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Colin Farrell has played his share of hit men with a heart. Remember “In Bruges?” The Irish actor again plays an assassin with a conscience in the drama “Dead Man Down,” directed by Niels Arden Oplev, who helmed the original “Girl With the Dragon Tatt [...]

‘One Night With the King’ Available on Blu-ray

DVD Features By Angela Dawson|March 4, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features The 2006 historical epic “One Night With the King” has arrived on Blu-ray. Lushly shot and beautifully scored in the grand style of classic Hollywood biblical epics including “Ben-Hur,” “The Ten Commandments” and “Spartacus,” the drama tells the story of Hadass [...]