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.

Blake Lively Gets Gritty in Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages’

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Blake Lively burst onto the Hollywood scene in 2005’s big screen adaptation of the perky young adult novel “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” She went out to become a household name playing Upper East Side socialite Serena Van Der Woodsen on “Gossip [...]

Over-the-Top ‘Savages’ Is Director Stone’s Comeback

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

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “Savages” is an irresistibly over-the-top thriller about double-crossing drug lords that’s cool, complicated and the good kind of crazy. It’s also a real return to form for director/co-writer Oliver Stone, whose last outing wa [...]

Recast Reboot is Best ‘Spider-Man’ Ever

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|June 30, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Better in every way than the recent trilogy it reboots, “The Amazing Spider-Man” succeeds by boldly going forward into the comic-book character’s past. The epic-length 138-minute adventure not only updates the web-slinger’s or [...]

Chris Pine is Down to Earth in ‘People Like Us’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 28, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Chris Pine rocketed to stardom in 2009 when he took over the iconic role of Captain James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ reboot of the sci-fi classic “Star Trek” franchise. With his intense blue eyes and considerable acting chops the second-generation actor [...]

‘People Like Us’ is Frustrating Family Affair

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

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The two biggest problems with “People Like Us” are its meaninglessly generic title and a hopelessly contrived premise. The movie’s biggest asset is Elizabeth Banks, as the sexy but struggling single mother of a disrespectful semi-de [...]

MacFarlane’s ‘Ted’ is Filthy Fairy Tale

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

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Fans of writer-director Seth MacFarlane’s “animation domination” Fox TV shows should enjoy “Ted,” his similarly sophomoric live-action big-screen debut. But anyone hoping for funnier fare than potty and pothead jokes may [...]

‘Family Guy’s’ MacFarlane Hits the Big Screen with ‘Ted’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 26, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—TV audiences know Seth MacFarlane as the creator of the hit animated series “Family Guy” and the voices of its irrepressible baby, Stewie and goofball father, Peter. MacFarlane now makes his big screen directorial debut with “Ted,” an irreverent comed [...]

Channing Tatum Reveals the Truth About Stripping in ‘Magic Mike’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|June 25, 2012 |0

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Before he became a matinee idol, a young Channing Tatum was already burning up the stage in his native Florida working as a male stripper. The money, the women and the parties were the main draw for the handsome charmer. But once Hollywood came cal [...]

More ‘Journeys’ for Neil Young

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|June 25, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic HOLLYWOOD—Some of the hometown landmarks Neil Young recalls during on-the-road segments of this concert documentary may be long gone, but the singer-songwriter himself remains enduringly iconic after nearly a half-century of rocking in the free world [...]

Vampire Hunter Lincoln Gives Undead the Ax

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|June 21, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Too simpleminded to take seriously yet too stodgy to be much fun, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” is like a house divided against itself. And you know what Honest Abe said about those. The title is a great throwaway gag that could have [...]