live-action/animation — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

There's Never a Bad Time to Rerun This Piece on It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, Starring Snoopy's Loner Brother and Charles Schultz's Own Daughter

Charles Schulz spent four years making It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a live-action/animation hybrid starring his own daughter Jill and Snoopy’s unpopular brother Spike. It did not go well.

Song of the South is Racist, Terrible

For the concluding entry in Wild Disney Animation Month I come face to face with 1946’s Song of the South, which is every bit as horrifying and racist as its reputation suggests and then some.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #178 Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)

My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie continues with the bizarre, bizarrely racist Luc Besson-directed 2006 animation/live-action hybrid Arthur and the Invisibles, a fascinatingly misbegotten project with a voice cast that includes Bowie, Robert De Niro, Madonna, Harvey Keitel, Jason Bateman, Jimmy Fallon and Snoop Dogg.