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.

Zom-Rom-Com ‘Life After Beth’ Finds Hilarity in Horror

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 25, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Life After Beth,” a wickedly funny zombie romantic comedy (zom-rom-com?) in the very tongue-in-cheek tradition of “Shaun of the Dead,” stars Dane DeHaan as Zach, a forlornly mourning boyfriend who regrets all of the things he [...]

‘Fluffy’ Comedian Gabriel Iglesias Bares Soul on Big Screen

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 25, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Like so many other comedians, Gabriel Iglesias’ stand up act is rooted in personal pain. Raised by his mom, the San Diego native grew up without a father. Over the years, he has struggled with weight issues and recently was diagnosed with diabetes, an [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Joey Kern Goes ‘Beneath’ the Surface in Horror Flick

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 23, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A dozen years after he had his breakthrough role in the Eli Roth horror flick “Cabin Fever,” Kentucky-born actor Joey Kern returns to the genre, this time stuck underground in a coal mine shaft rather than a remote rental in the woods. In the film, di [...]

Woody Allen Talks on his Latest Diversion ‘Magic in the Moonlight’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 23, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—While Woody Allen’s new film, “Magic in the Moonlight” appears to be simply another European-set period romp starring dashing English actor Colin Firth and pretty ingénue Emma Stone, upon closer examination, the feature turns out to be a dissertation o [...]

Johansson’s Super ‘Lucy’ Makes Black Widow Look Tame

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 23, 2014 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic As the mentally-enhanced and mega-powerful main character of director/writer Luc Besson’s outrageously entertaining “Lucy,” Scarlett Johansson makes the badass Black Widow character she plays in Marvel’s superhero movies look [...]

For His Next Trick, Colin Firth Appears in Woody Allen Comedy

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 23, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Filmmaker Woody Allen was determined to have Colin Firth star in his ‘20s-set romantic comedy “Magic in the Moonlight,” even though the Oscar-winner was unavailable because he already was committed to do another project. Perhaps the Wood-man conjured [...]

Fassbender Fascinates in Offbeat ‘Frank’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2014 |0

****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS FILM OPENS AUGUST 22 BUT THERE IS NO EMBARGO.**** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The irresistibly odd “Frank” is an unexpectedly endearing but sometimes dark character study revolving around an eccentric avant garde musician who constantly wea [...]

Talking Raccoon and Tree Save Smirky ‘Guardians’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2014 |0

*****NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS REVIEW IS EMBARGOED FROM PUBLICATION UNTIL FRIDAY, AUGUST 1.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Guardians of the Galaxy” is the movie that non-fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” worried “The Avengers” would turn out [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Noonan Mines Heroic Role in ‘Beneath’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kelly Noonan is an up and coming actress who is athletic, beautiful, smart (she graduated from magna cum laude from UCLA) and full of energy. She’s also full of surprises. Reached by phone on a recent weekday afternoon, she reveals she is on her way t [...]

Douglas, Keaton Not Enough to Save Predictable ‘And So It Goes’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2014 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Who knew? Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas make a cute couple. The Oscar winners’ first film together, Rob Reiner’s “And So It Goes,” sadly, is sweet but rambling as they play a couple struggling to move past lives as widow and widower, and put a romantic s [...]