What I Watched Last Month

  • Ryuchi Sakamoto: Opus – Neo Sora

  • Origin – Ava Duvernay

  • Xue Bao (Snow Leopard) – Pema Tseden

  • The Red Suitcase – Fidel Devkota

  • Memory – Michel Franco

  • You Hurt My Feelings – Nicole Holofcener

  • The Peter Crouch Film – Benjamin Hirsch

  • Carol – Todd Haynes

  • Hypnotic – Robert Rodriguez

  • Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free – Mary Wharton

  • Local Hero – Bill Forsyth

  • The Guard – John Michael McDonagh

  • Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant – Guy Ritchie’s

  • Special Ops: Lioness – Taylor Sheridan

  • 57 Seconds – Rusty Cundieff

  • Hard Knocks: NY Jets

  • The Lobster – Yorgos Lanthimos

  • Barbie – Greta Gerwig

  • Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn – James Jones

  • Pamela, A Love Story – Ryan White

  • Moneyball – Bennett Miller

  • Raven's Hollow – Christopher Hatton

  • Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine – Shai Gal

  • The Big Short – Adam McKay

  • The Dream in the Mirror – Louise Milne and Seán Martin

  • Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer – Andrey A. Tarkovskiy

  • Winning Time (Season 2) – Max Borenstein, Jim Hecht

What I Watched Last Month

  • Medusa Deluxe – Thomas Hardiman

  • Untold: Johnny Football – Ryan Duffy

  • A Compassionate Spy – Steve James

  • Untold: Jake Paul the Problem Child – Andrew F. Renzi

  • Squaring the Circle – Anton Corbijn

  • Past Lives – Celine Strong

  • No Hard Feelings – Gene Stupnitsky

  • Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas – Joe Lazarov

  • Quarterback (Season 1) – Tim Rumpff

  • Lift – David Petersen

  • Raven’s Hollow – Christopher Hatton

  • Guardians of the Galaxy 3 – James Gunn

  • Joyride – Adele Lim

  • Untold: Swamp Kings – Katharine English

  • Telemarketers – Adam Bhala Lough, Sam Lipman-Stern

  • Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (Season 2) – Max Borenstein, Jim Hecht

  • The Big Short – Adam Mckay

What I Watched Last Month

  • Chevalier – Stephen Williams

  • Asteroid City – Wes Anderson

  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – James Mangold

  • Fame – Alan Parker

  • Pez Outlaw – Amy Storkel & Bryan Storkel

  • American Pain – Darren Foster

  • HiJack – Jim Field Smith; Mo Ali

  • The Great Beauty – Paolo Sorrentino

  • The Last Samurai – Edward Zwick

  • Troy (Extended Version) – Wolfgang Petersen

  • Knights of the Zodiac – Tomasz Bagiński

  • Filming for Your Life: Making 'After Hours'

  • After Hours – Martin Scorsese

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson

  • The Making of the Shining – Vivian Kubrick

  • They Cloned Tyrone – Juel Taylor

  • The Flash – Andrés Muschietti

  • Spector – Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce

  • Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia – Salima Koroma

What I Watched Last Month

  • Beau is Afraid – Ari Aster

  • The Secret Kingdom – Matt Drummond

  • No Country for Old Men – The Coen Brothers

  • Great Expectations – Alfonso Cuarón

  • Dead Ringers (2023 Mini-series) – Sean Durkin, Karyn Kusama, Karena Evans, Lauren Wolkstein

  • The Planet of the Apes (2001) – Tim Burton

  • Platonic – Francesca Delbanco & Nicholas Stoller

  • 65 – Scott Beck & Bryan Woods

  • The League – Sam Pollard

  • Allelujah – Richard Eyre

  • George Michael: Freedom Uncut – David Austin &George Michael

  • John Wick: Chapter 4 – Chad Stahelski

What I Watched Last Month

  • Alice – Woody Allenn

  • The Blind Side – John Lee Hancock

  • Beef (Season 1) – Lee Sung Jin

  • Badlands – Terrence Malick

  • Master Gardener – Paul Shrader

  • Memento – Christopher Nolan

  • Dear Mama – Allen Hughes

  • Air – Ben Affleck

  • Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre – Guy Ritchie

  • Still – Davis Guggenheim

  • Hearts of Darkness – Eleanor Coppola

  • Thelma & Louise – Ridley Scott

  • Daliland – Mary Harron

  • Ice Age 2: The Melt Down – Carlos Saldanha

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Steven Spielberg

  • 100 Foot Wave: Season 2 – Chris Smith

  • Succession: Season 3

  • Love to Love You, Donna Summer – Roger Ross Williams, Brooklyn Sudano

  • Crimson Gold– Jafar Panahi

Ludacris Did Not Know ‘Southern Hospitality’ Would Be A Hit

From BALLER ALERT by ErinBoogie May 29, 2023

During a recent sitdown with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s on their All The Smoke podcast, Ludacris revealed that he did not know “Southern Hospitality” would be the hit it would become.

The rapper revealed that the song made it on the album at the last minute, needing additional tracks to repackage an independent album for his major label debut with Def Jam. In need of a record that could pack a punch, Luda turned to The Neptunes, the production duo comprised of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo.

Luda was vibin’ to the beat they gave him, but did not know that it would turn into the hit it would later become.

“If anybody can give you a hit at the last minute, it’s Pharrell and Chad and The Neptunes,” Luda said. “He throws on this beat, and I’m vibing to it. I’m thinking it’s cool. I’m not like thinking, ‘This is a hit.'”

Luda recalls going to the studio’s parking lot to write to the instrumental in his car. The rapper thought it was good, but everyone else felt like the record could be big. 

“With ‘Southern Hospitality,’ I did not know that it was the hit that it became,” he continued.

“Southern Hospitality” was released as the second single off of Luda’s Back for the First Time. The record would go on to hit No. 23 on the Billboard 100 and No. 5 on the Billboard Rap Songs chart in 2001.

The video was directed by Jeremy Rall and featured cameos by Lil Jon, Scarface, Too Short, and Jazze Pha.  

Check out Ludacris’s full interview below.

What I Watched Last Month

  • Fight Club – David Fincher

  • Snag – Ben Milliken

  • 12th Victim – Nicola Marsh

  • Boom! Boom! The World Vs Boris Becker – Alex Gibney

  • Reggie – Alex Stapleton

  • The Proposal – Anne Fletcher

  • The Best Man – Shane Dax Taylor

  • War Trap – David Aboucaya

  • After Hours – Martin Scorsese

  • Knock at the Cabin – M. Night Shyamalan

  • The Voyeurs – Michael Mohan

  • The Master – Mariama Diallo

  • The Story of Film: A new Generation – Mark Cousins

  • Gods of Mexico – Helmut Dosantos

  • Alan Pakula: Going for Truth – Matthew Miele

  • I Am Love – Luca Guadagnino

  • Dear Mama : Episode 1 – Allen Hughes