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.

Not Much to Relish in ‘Frankenweenie’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 3, 2012 |0

*****Release date is Friday October 5, and reviews are embargoed until that date.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Frankenweenie”‘s premise sounds like the setup for an offbeat but potentially heartwarming tearjerker. A friendless boy whose dog is hit by a ca [...]

Tim Burton Reanimates his ‘Frankenweenie’ Classic

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 3, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features ANAHEIM, Calif.—Tim Burton has come a long way since he made his original “Frankenweenie,” short film about a boy named Victor who brings his dead dog back to life via a good jolt of electricity, an homage to Mary Shelley’s horror classic “Frankenstein” and the [...]

Anna Kendrick is Simply ‘Perfect’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 2, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Anna Kendrick got her start in musical theater, earning a Tony nomination at the tender age of 12 for her role as Dinah Lord in the 1997 Broadway musical production of “High Society.” One of her earliest film roles was playing a musical theater studen [...]

Kidman Delivers in Pulp-Fiction ‘Paperboy’

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|October 2, 2012 |0

*****Release date is Friday October 5, and there is no embargo on when reviews can run.***** By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Director/screenwriter Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy” is a 1960s-set film noir that’s a sweaty and sinister pleasure. Part mystery, part [...]

Winona Ryder: From ‘Beetlejuice’ to ‘Frankenweenie’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 1, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—At 13, Winona Ryder landed a plum role in Tim Burton’s horror comedy “Beetlejuice.” Young and relatively new to Hollywood at the time, she didn’t recognize the filmmaker when they first met on the Warner Bros lot. She simply assumed the gangly fellow [...]

‘Crimson’ Miniseries is a Victorian Delight

Film Reviews Reviews TV Features By Angela Dawson|September 27, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Prostitution. Insanity. Infidelity. Those are some of the subjects delved into in “The Crimson Petal and the White,” a provocative four-part miniseries about an ambitious young prostitute and her wealthy john, set in Victorian England. The Gothic melodrama is b [...]

Gordon-Levitt Tackles Time Travel in ‘Looper’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 27, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Joseph Gordon-Levitt is having quite a year. Having starred in the box office hit “The Dark Knight Rises” and the end-of-summer action thriller “Premium Rush,” as well as hosting “Saturday Night Live,” the busy performer is now playing Bruce Willis. [...]

‘Hotel Transylvania’ Worth Checking In

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|September 26, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Without seeing this year’s dueling animated Halloween flicks, it might be hard to imagine any critic liking the Adam Sandler-starring “Hotel Transylvania” more than the Tim Burton-directed “Frankenweenie.” Sandler is inf [...]

Loopy ‘Looper’ Fails to Connect

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|September 26, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Science fiction flicks that don’t make a lick of sense can compensate by offering a sufficient quantity of fun (“Back to the Future”) or stylized weirdness (“The Matrix”). The humorless and derivative “Looper” [...]

Screenwriter Says ‘Preacher’ Movie is “Gestating”

News By Angela Dawson|September 25, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—John August, who has been tapped to write the movie version of the DC/Vertigo Comics series “Preacher” created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, describes the project as “gestating.” “I don’t know if the birth is going to be anytime soon, [...]