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.

The Catherine Zeta-Jones Effect

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|February 3, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When you marry an actor, you have to accept that your beloved likely will have to spend a lot of time smooching other people. For Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is married to fellow thespian Michael Douglas, that understanding came in handy when hubby rece [...]

Teresa Palmer is All Too Human in ‘Warm Bodies’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|January 31, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Teresa Palmer looks every bit the glamorous Hollywood actress as she arrives for an interview dressed in a black and white Oscar de la Renta dress. But the blond, blue-eyed beauty reveals she was more of a “socks and sandals girl” while growing up in [...]

Getting Warmer: Nicholas Hoult Plays Lovestruck Zombie in New Movie

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|January 29, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLLYWOOD—Nicholas Hoult is much more animated in person than the shuffling zombie he plays in the new zom-com “Warm Bodies.” Tall, lanky and very British, Hoult is in town to promote his new movie written and directed by Jonathan Levine and based on the young [...]

Zeta-Jones To be Part of Oscars Musical Salute

News By Angela Dawson|January 27, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones revealed today she is a bit anxious but excited about her upcoming appearance at the Academy Awards as part of a special celebration of movie musicals of the last 10 years. Speaking at a press junket to promote her n [...]

High-Firepower ‘Hansel & Gretel’ Go Witch Hunting

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|January 27, 2013 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” fractures the classic fairy tale by aging the children into adult action heroes who have a lot of attitude and a cartload of fantasy firearms. The movie has its moments, but disappoints by not taking i [...]

Jason Statham Tackles Literary Thief ‘Parker’

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jason Statham has played a number of tough guy movie characters over the years, but he says what distinguishes his role in “Parker” from previous roles is the writing by author Donald Westlake, who penned more than a hundred hard-boiled crime novels b [...]

‘Parker’ More Runny Than Hard Boiled

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|January 24, 2013 |0

NOTE TO EDITORS: Reviews are embargoed for publication until Friday, January 25 By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The first thing we see career criminal Parker (Jason Statham) do in the movie bearing his one-word name is park a car, which seems a bit on the nose. Unfortunately, the r [...]

McGraw Plans All-Star Concert Special in Vegas

News By Angela Dawson|January 23, 2013 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Report HOLLYWOOD—Award winning country singer Tim McGraw will be taping an all-star concert special in Las Vegas in April that will later air on CBS. The Academy of Country Music and Dick Clark Productions announced Wednesday the concert special, to be called “ACM Pr [...]

‘G.I. Joe’ Sequel Snippet Sneaks at ‘Hansel & Gretel’

News By Angela Dawson|January 23, 2013 |0

By a Front Row Features Staff Report HOLLYWOOD—Audiences at “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” will be treated to a special four-minute sneak peek of “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” Paramount Pictures, the distributor of both films announced Wednesday. This first-look at the film will play across the [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Merchant Cozies Up to Halle Berry in ‘Movie 43’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|January 21, 2013 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Stephen Merchant is best known as Ricky Gervais’ writing partner and frequent onscreen comedy foil. The two conceived the original acclaimed U.K. TV series “The Office,” and subsequently co-executive produced the award-winning American version that st [...]