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.

Phoenix and Hoffman Masterful in ‘The Master’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|September 13, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” is brilliant, beautiful, often unsettling and emotionally devastating. Forget the media shorthand that shortchanges the film by describing it as a fictionalized biography of Scient [...]

First look at Next Season’s ‘Foyle’s War’

News By Angela Dawson|September 13, 2012 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Report Acorn Media, Masterpiece/WGBH, ITV and Eleventh Hour Films released today the first images from the set of “Foyle’s War.” The three new episodes will air as part of the Masterpiece Mystery! Season on PBS in summer of 2013. “World War II [...]

A ‘Liberal’ Discussion with Elizabeth Olsen

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 11, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON HOLLYWOOD—Following her star-making turn last year in the psychological thriller “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” and subsequent worthwhile performances this year in the horror thriller “Silent House” and the psychological thriller “Red Lights,” Elizabeth Olsen returns to the big scre [...]

‘Liberal Arts’ Fails on Every Level

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|September 9, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Only the aggravatingly unwatchable “Rock of Ages” keeps the excruciatingly irritating “Liberal Arts” from being the worst movie I’ve seen so far this year. The former is a misbegotten musical that’s campily moronic [...]

An Un’Holy’ Version of Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ Controversy

DVD Features By Angela Dawson|September 4, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features In 1979, the members of the irreverent Monty Python comedy troupe released their most outrageous and controversial movie, “The Life of Brian.” Loosely based on the life of Christ—it was ostensibly about another child born in Israel around the same time as Jesus [...]

Bradley Cooper Finds The Right ‘Words’

Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 4, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hunky actor Bradley Cooper is self-confident, self-deprecating and can handle almost any question thrown at him except one: What’s it like to be called ‘The Sexiest Man Alive,’ as he was designated in 2011 by People magazine. The typically quick-witte [...]

Teen pop star Austin Mahone debuts on Chase Records

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 30, 2012 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Report Move over Justin Bieber. The newest teen hearthrob is 16-year-old Austin Mahone. The rising young pop singer is the first music artist on Chase Records, which has entered a deal with Universal Music. Chase Records, founded by Rocco Valdes, Michael Blumstein, [...]

Nick Cave Discusses ‘Lawless’ Words and Music

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 27, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Musician/writer Nick Cave’s image may be that of a sometimes intensely grim performer who has fronted the Bad Seeds since the 1980s, released a 1996 album titled “Murder Ballads” and was described as a “harbinger of the gothic p [...]

Hardy Shines as ‘Lawless’ Bootlegger

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|August 24, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Dark Knight Rises” costars Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman never appear onscreen together in “Lawless,” Oldman shows up in only three scenes of the Prohibition-era drama and their characters couldn’t be more different. Bu [...]

‘Bucket List’ Producers Tapped for Academy Awards

News By Angela Dawson|August 23, 2012 |0

By A Front Row Features Staff Report Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the 85th Academy Awards, Academy President Hawk Koch announced today. This will be the duo’s first involvement with the Oscars. The 85th Academy Awards will air live on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013. “Craig and N [...]