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.

Logan Lerman Sets Course for ‘Sea’ Adventure

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 30, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Logan Lerman reprises his role as a teenage demigod in the action-packed “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” a sequel to 2010’s “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” The films are based on Rick Riordan’s popular young adult fantasy b [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Cyclops Takes it in the Eye in ‘2 Guns’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 30, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actor James Marsden is calling from the driveway of his Los Angeles home because the cell phone reception inside his house is pretty lousy. Though it’s a scorching 100-degree day, Marsden assures he is “comfy” and not to worry. Marsden, of course, is [...]

Cate Blanchett in Full Bloom as Woody Allen’s ‘Jasmine’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 27, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett (“The Aviator”) plays a former New York socialite who has fallen on hard times in Woody Allen’s dramedy “Blue Jasmine.” The juicy role, in which the Australian actress plays the title character Jasmine Fren [...]

Jackman Wows in ‘Wolverine’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 25, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic A dying Japanese zillionaire in “The Wolverine” is shown lying on a shiny CGI platform made of upright metal rods that automatically conform to his every change in position. That high-tech bed of nails looks so ridiculously uncomfortable [...]

‘Drive’ Filmmaker Sets a Course for Bangkok in ‘Only God Forgives’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 24, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn reconnects with his “Drive” team Ryan Gosling and musician Cliff Martinez on “Only God Forgives,” a dark drama that takes place in Thailand. Refn says he always had wanted to make a martial arts film, but thought [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Wes Bentley Brushes Up in ‘Time Being’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 24, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Like most parents, artists often have to make sacrifices in their careers for the sake of their children. That means sometimes taking a job you wouldn’t otherwise do simply because it pays the bills. That is the premise of “The Time Being,” a little i [...]

Blanchett is Centerpiece of ‘Blue Jasmine’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 23, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic As the irritatingly snobbish but ultimately pathetic widow of a cheating corporate crook, Cate Blanchett actually manages to raise some sympathy for a New Depression devil in director-writer Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine.” This odd li [...]

Put ‘To Do’ on Must-See List

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2013 |0

(NOTE TO EDITORS: DUE TO THE SEXUAL NATURE OF THE FILM, YOU MAY WANT TO DECIDE WHETHER TO USE WORDS SUCH AS “TEABAGGING” THAT ARE INCLUDED BELOW. WE HAVE TRIED TO AVOID USING ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE BUT OBVIOUSLY EACH OUTLET HAS ITS OWN STANDARDS. THE EMBARGOED HAS BEEN L [...]

Aubrey Plaza Hits the A ‘List’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2013 |0

(NOTE TO EDITORS: EXPLICIT TERMS HAVE BEEN ASTERISKED. HOWEVER, THE WORD “MASTERBATION” APPEARS BELOW BUT CAN BE REMOVED AT YOUR DISCRETION.) By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—How often do you get a chance to go through someone’s diary—and get paid to do it? Aubrey Plaza, [...]

‘RED 2’ Mugs and Misfires

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

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic More irritatingly obnoxious than all three of the winkingly self-satisfied “Ocean’s” movies rolled into one, the senior citizen star-cluster “RED 2” also seems as awkwardly redundant as a twice-told Alzheimer’s suf [...]