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.

Olivia Munn ‘Delivers’ as Protective Mom in Horror Flick

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 30, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress/model Olivia Munn plays the wife of a New York police sergeant (played by Australian hunk Eric Bana) who gets caught up in the world of demonic possession while investigating a series of crimes in the Bronx in “Deliver Us From Evil.” The horro [...]

Ed Harris Lost John Brown Rights to Paul Giamatti

News TV Features By Angela Dawson|June 30, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Though it was widely reported last fall that four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris and “Breaking Bad”’s Giancarlo Esposito would be co-starring in an historic film about abolitionists John Brown and Frederick Douglass, respectively, it turns out that actor Paul Gia [...]

A Return to ‘Twilight Zone’ on New DVD Set

DVD Features By Angela Dawson|June 30, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Fifty-five years ago, the spooky TV anthology series “The Twilight Zone,” debuted on CBS, ushering in an era of drama that was provocative, frequently allegorical and often just downright frightening. Narrated, hosted and often written by writer/playwright Rod [...]

Susan Sarandon Plays Sexy Granny in ‘Tammy’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 26, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Aside from her turn in the musical comedy “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” four decades ago, Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon (“Dead Man Walking”) is mostly known for her dramatic performances. The titian-haired New Yorker is still sexy at 67, and [...]

Kathy Bates Adds Flash to ‘Tammy’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 26, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Kathy Bates earned an Academy Award for playing an obsessed fan in the big screen adaption of Stephen King’s “Misery.” The Memphis, Tenn., native now plays another oddball in the Melissa McCarthy comedy “Tammy,” whose obsession is blowing things up. I [...]

Tilda Swinton is Ice Cold Enforcer in ‘Snowpiercer’

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD— Chameleon-like actress Tilda Swinton continues to add to her repertoire of unusual characters with Mason, a ruthless enforcer for a mysterious tyrant in Bong Joon Ho’s futuristic thriller “Snowpiercer.” Swinton, 53, nearly disappears in the role unde [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Haggis Reflects on Writing in ‘Third Person’ Ensemble

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 19, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Paul Haggis has established himself as one of the most successful and in-demand screenwriters in town. He was the first screenwriter to win Oscars two years in a row with 2004’s “Million Dollar Baby,” directed by Clint Eastwood, and 2005’s “Crash,” wh [...]

Robert Pattinson Heads Down Under for ‘The Rover’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 18, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s opening day for the newest film starring international heartthrob Robert Pattinson. Only, there’s been no big Hollywood red carpet premiere and “The Rover,” a small, indie road movie set in the Australian outback is only showing on a handful of s [...]

Billy Bob Thornton Weighs In on ‘Fargo’ Role

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 18, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As the mysterious and violent Lorne Malvo, Billy Bob Thornton has served as a thorn in the side of put-upon insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman) for 10 episodes of the dark comedy series “Fargo,” on FX. He’s also eluded local Deputy Moll [...]

‘Jersey Boys’ a New Tune for Clint Eastwood

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 16, 2014 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—Clint Eastwood’s acting career was just getting into full swing when Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons rose to fame as a homegrown pop band in the early 1960s. Already an adult at that point, Eastwood’s musical taste leaned more towards jazz than pop [...]