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.

No Cheers for ‘Drinking Buddies,’ ‘Spectacular Now’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 16, 2013 |0

(NOTE TO EDITORS: THE EMBARGO FOR “DRINKING BUDDIES” IS AUGUST 25 WHEN IT WILL BE AVAILABLE ON ITUNES/ON DEMAND. THERE IS NO EMBARGO FOR “SPECTACULAR NOW,” WHICH OPENS IN THEATERS AUGUST 2.) By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The weavingly meandering infidelity [...]

‘Only God Forgives’ Reteams Gosling, Refn

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 16, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Strange, savage and yet sleekly elegant, the dreamlike film noir thriller “Only God Forgives” is the best film I’ve seen so far this year. If David Lynch directed a Jim Thompson novel in Thailand, it might look a lot like this one: [...]

‘Being John Malkovich’ and other Meta Movies

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 16, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—With the release of the raunchy sci-fi comedy, “This Is the End,” in which actors Jonah Hill, James Franco, Michael Cera, Emma Watson, singer Rihanna and other popular performers play fictional versions of themselves, it made me thi [...]

Mirren Reprises Assassin Role in ‘RED 2’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 14, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—In a summer of superheroes, even the queen is getting in on the action. Dame Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar (and just about every other acting award) for her humanizing depiction of Queen Elizabeth II few years ago reprises her comic book character rol [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Hits the Hoops in ‘Hot Flashes’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 10, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—While other actresses get arrested for selfish and stupid mistakes like public intoxication, shoplifting or assault, Daryl Hannah prides herself on getting into trouble for altruistic reasons. Within a recent six-month span, the “Splash” and “Kill Bil [...]

Monster Madness for Charlie Day

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 8, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, Calif.—Monsters are very much a big part of Charlie Day’s life this summer. The “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” star plays a brilliant but somewhat offbeat scientist trying to conceive a way to stop alien monsters known as Kaiju from invading ea [...]

‘Pacific Rim’ Goes Big and Scores

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 8, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bigger definitely is better in the hugely entertaining “Pacific Rim,” a massive-scale mechanical-men vs. monsters blockbuster with a story as good as its special effects. Director/writer Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,&# [...]

AnnaSophia Robb is the Girl Next Door in ‘Way, Way Back’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 6, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—AnnaSophia Robb is getting used to her fashion icon status now that she is playing a younger version of fashion-conscious Carrie Bradshaw on the CW series “The Carrie Diaries.” Her words of advice to would-be fashionistas: “You have to have a seamstre [...]

Cera and Hoffman Shine in ‘Crystal Fairy’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 3, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic An irritatingly self-involved American takes a long and uneventful road trip to the Chilean seaside with some indulgent locals to get high on the boiled essence of an exotic cactus. That set-up may not bring the words “cinematic crowd-pleaser&# [...]

Depp Rides Off With ‘Lone Ranger’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 2, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Johnny Depp’s Tonto basically is Jack Sparrow with more face paint and a dead crow on his head in this tongue-in-cheek retelling of “The Lone Ranger,” while Armie Hammer’s title character is so pureheartedly Dudley Do-Rightish [...]