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.

Beatles’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ Resurfaces on DVD

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|May 31, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features More than four decades after “Yellow Submarine” appeared in theaters, the surrealistic animated fantasy featuring the Beatles as pop-art cartoon characters surfaces again in a digitally restored DVD version June 5. The groundbreaking feature’s colorfully [...]

Tommy Lee Jones is Back in ‘Black’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 29, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones got his start in show business as so many actors have—by appearing in a school play. It was in tiny Rotan, Texas, some 60 miles from Abilene. “When I was in the second grade, my school performed ‘Snow White and the [...]

‘Monroe’ Offers Cure for ‘House’ Withdrawal

Film Reviews Reviews By Angela Dawson|May 28, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features For “House” fans in withdrawal over that long-running Fox series’ finale, there’s a fix. “Monroe,” a six-part British medical drama that ran on ITV last year, is now available here on DVD. Like “House,” “Monroe” features a brilliant physician (played by Irish [...]

Will Smith Returns as Agent J in ‘MIB3’

Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 14, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—There’s no denying that when Will Smith enters the room, electricity fills the air. “I feel so good, it’s almost a damn shame,” he exclaims when asked how he’s feeling. And why shouldn’t he? The onetime Fresh Prince is now the king of Hollywood, havin [...]

Out of the ‘Shadows:’ Building A Manor Fit for Vampire

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—If the hilltop mansion in the new feature film “Dark Shadows” looks familiar, it should. Production designer Rick Heinrichs, who won an Academy Award for his work on director Tim Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow,” purposely took inspiration from the one that a [...]

After Dark Debuts First Five Features

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

By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A new contender has stepped into the lucrative action movie field. It’s called After Dark Action, a partnership between After Dark Films and Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Entertainment. The partnership will debut its initial five original films i [...]

Johnny Depp Sinks Teeth Into ‘Dark Shadows’ Role

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 7, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Johnny Depp and Tim Burton first collaborated 22 years on the offbeat romantic monster movie “Edward Scissorhands.” Depp played the softhearted metallic monster with razor-sharp scissors for hands; Burton was an up-and-coming filmmaker who co-wrote th [...]

Rita Wilson Tunes Up for ‘AM/FM’ CD

Film Features By Angela Dawson|May 7, 2012 |0

By MICHAEL HIXON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress-producer Rita Wilson grew up listening to the radio in her parent’s car in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Songs that were about the romanticized version of love from that era evolved into the singer-songwriters that dominated the radio in the [...]

Now Hear This: Oscars Theater Renamed Dolby

News By Angela Dawson|May 1, 2012 |0

By A Front Row Features Staff Reporter HOLLYWOOD—The Kodak Theatre, which has been the venue of the Academy Awards for the past decade, now has a new name: the Dolby Theatre. Dolby Laboratories, Inc. and CIM Tuesday announced a 20-year agreement to name the Dolby Theatre—the iconic theatre at th [...]

Marvel Superheroes Join Forces in ‘The Avengers’

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

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—One of the most anticipated films of the year opens Friday. “Marvel’s The Avengers,” starring Robert Downey Jr. reprising his role as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth returning as the thunder god Thor, Chris Evans returning as Steve Rogers/Captain [...]