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 Worth Seeing in ‘Watch’

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

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Watch” turns out to be less than the sum of its slowly moving parts. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill bring enough star power to this suburban sci-fi silliness that it should have been a comedy Rolex. Instead, the relatively [...]

‘Watch’ Men

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 24, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill are three of the funniest actors in Hollywood and have worked with each other in various comedies over the years. Stiller and Vaughn co-starred in “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” and “Dodgeball” and Sti [...]

‘Sparks’ Fly Between Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano in New Comedy

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 23, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Any writer will tell you a character sometimes will take over a story as it is being created. Actress and budding screenwriter Zoe Kazan takes that premise literally in her first produced screenplay “Ruby Sparks,” a quirky romantic comedy in which a n [...]

Matthew McConaughey Is No Ordinary ‘Joe’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 22, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Fresh from his turn as an exotic dancer and strip club proprietor in “Magic Mike,” Matthew McConaughey plays a far more sinister character in his newest movie, the ultra-violent “Killer Joe,” in which he plays the title character, a killer for hire wh [...]

Hollywood Reacts to ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Rampage

News By Angela Dawson|July 21, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Producers of “The Bourne Legacy,” the latest installment of the popular “Bourne” action-thriller franchise said Friday they have no intentions of altering or eliminating a scene in that film in which a mass shooting takes place by a lone gunman. The s [...]

Dismal ‘Dark Knight’ Fails to Rise

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|July 18, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Bloated, boring and obsolete on arrival, “The Dark Knight Rises” is the least fun you’ll have at a superhero movie all year. This final chapter in director/co-writer Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is so relentlessly dull t [...]

Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis Hit ‘Campaign’ Trail

Features Film Features News By Angela Dawson|July 18, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Will Ferrell has three words for Congress: stop screwing around. At least that’s the message he’s taking to Washington on his so-called Whistle-Stop Tour Across America, which kicked off here Tuesday. Ferrell, who’s famous for depicting George W. Bush [...]

Cillian Murphy Pulls Out the Stops for ‘Red Lights’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 10, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Eagle-eyed viewers can catch a double-dose of Irish actor Cillian Murphy in theaters. He reprises his role as the Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” the third installment of that blockbuster franchise. In addition, the Irish act [...]

Christian Bale Flies Again With ‘Dark Knight Rises’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 9, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Christian Bale remembers the first time he put on the Batman costume, he suddenly felt overwhelmed. He literally couldn’t breathe. “I thought, ‘oh, Chris (Nolan) has to recast,’ because the claustrophobia was just unbelievable,” the Welsh actor recall [...]

Tyrese Brings Down the House at CityWalk

Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 6, 2012 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.—The bangin’ outdoor concert venue at Universal CityWalk got a one year anniversary treat when R&B singer turned movie star (“2 Fast 2 Furious” and the “Transformers” franchise) Tyrese Gibson (who simply goes by Tyrese) went back to his [...]