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.

Matthew McConaughey Is No Ordinary ‘Joe’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Fresh from his turn as an exotic dancer and strip club proprietor in “Magic Mike,” Matthew McConaughey plays a far more sinister character in his newest movie, the ultra-violent “Killer Joe,” in which he plays the title character, a killer for hire wh [...]

Hollywood Reacts to ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Rampage

News By Angela Dawson|July 21, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Producers of “The Bourne Legacy,” the latest installment of the popular “Bourne” action-thriller franchise said Friday they have no intentions of altering or eliminating a scene in that film in which a mass shooting takes place by a lone gunman. The s [...]

Dismal ‘Dark Knight’ Fails to Rise

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 18, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bloated, boring and obsolete on arrival, “The Dark Knight Rises” is the least fun you’ll have at a superhero movie all year. This final chapter in director/co-writer Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is so relentlessly dull t [...]

Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis Hit ‘Campaign’ Trail

Features Film Features News By Angela Dawson|July 18, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Will Ferrell has three words for Congress: stop screwing around. At least that’s the message he’s taking to Washington on his so-called Whistle-Stop Tour Across America, which kicked off here Tuesday. Ferrell, who’s famous for depicting George W. Bush [...]

Cillian Murphy Pulls Out the Stops for ‘Red Lights’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 10, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Eagle-eyed viewers can catch a double-dose of Irish actor Cillian Murphy in theaters. He reprises his role as the Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” the third installment of that blockbuster franchise. In addition, the Irish act [...]

Christian Bale Flies Again With ‘Dark Knight Rises’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 9, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Christian Bale remembers the first time he put on the Batman costume, he suddenly felt overwhelmed. He literally couldn’t breathe. “I thought, ‘oh, Chris (Nolan) has to recast,’ because the claustrophobia was just unbelievable,” the Welsh actor recall [...]

Tyrese Brings Down the House at CityWalk

Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 6, 2012 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.—The bangin’ outdoor concert venue at Universal CityWalk got a one year anniversary treat when R&B singer turned movie star (“2 Fast 2 Furious” and the “Transformers” franchise) Tyrese Gibson (who simply goes by Tyrese) went back to his [...]

Blake Lively Gets Gritty in Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 2, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Blake Lively burst onto the Hollywood scene in 2005’s big screen adaptation of the perky young adult novel “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” She went out to become a household name playing Upper East Side socialite Serena Van Der Woodsen on “Gossip [...]

Over-the-Top ‘Savages’ Is Director Stone’s Comeback

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 2, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Savages” is an irresistibly over-the-top thriller about double-crossing drug lords that’s cool, complicated and the good kind of crazy. It’s also a real return to form for director/co-writer Oliver Stone, whose last outing wa [...]

Recast Reboot is Best ‘Spider-Man’ Ever

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|June 30, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Better in every way than the recent trilogy it reboots, “The Amazing Spider-Man” succeeds by boldly going forward into the comic-book character’s past. The epic-length 138-minute adventure not only updates the web-slinger’s or [...]