It’s 1980 in Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, and a war rages, while a high-stakes election could change this country forever. For 7-year-old Bobo (Lexi Venter), life continues on at her white ...

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight (2024) Film Review, a movie directed by Embeth Davidtz, written by Alexandra Fuller and Embeth Davidtz and starring Lexi Venter, Zikhona Bali, Embeth Davidtz, Ilana ...

Discovery Lexi Venter anchors Davidtz's impressionistic adaptation of a memoir of rural life during the Rhodesian Bush War. Davidtz told IndieWire she needed “a wild, untrained, feral, spontaneous ...

HOLLYWOOD (KABC) -- Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actor David Oyelowo has grabbed on to a juicy new role. In "Don't Let Go", Oyelowo's character receives a shocking phone call from his recently ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with actor Embeth Davidtz about her directorial debut, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight." It's an adaptation of the book about growing up in Rhodesia before decolonization.

Embeth Davidtz remembers the violence — and the fear. When she was 8, she moved from bucolic New Jersey, with its rolling green hills and yellow school buses, to her father’s home country of South ...

Embeth Davidtz’s home is so quiet. Nestled in Brentwood Park, the 59-year-old actor’s spacious yet cozy place feels like a sanctuary, the skylight in her kitchen offering plentiful afternoon sun. Once ...

“Are we racists?” That’s the blunt question posed by Bobo, a white girl living on a farm in Africa, to her horrified (and defensive) mother. There are so many ways this three-word line reading could ...

It’s 1980 in Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, and a war rages, while a high-stakes election could change this country forever. For 7-year-old Bobo (Lexi Venter), life continues on at her white ...

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