The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced this morning.  The big surprise of the morning was a Best Picture nomination for football drama The Blind Side. The expanded field of 10 nominees for Best Picture is the most since 1943. Avatar and The Hurt Locker are considered the front-runners for the Best Picture…

Click here to vote in the Silver Reels Awards!  The nominees for the 3rd Silver Reels Awards were announced this morning. Voting in ten different categories is open to the public through an online ballot. All UATV viewers are eligible to vote for the Best Picture – Drama, Best Picture – Comedy, Best Picture –…

Student director Clint Fullen appears on Razorback Reels tonight to talk about his upcoming short film The Razorback Family: Generations.  The film will be part of the Pride of Arkansas Tour by the Arkansas Alumni Association.  More information on the tour can be found on their website. Also, Aaron and Adam review Legion, The Messenger…

Sometime tonight or tomorrow, someone will purchase a ticket to Avatar that will push it past Titanic‘s worldwide box office record of $1,842,879,955.  It will be just the 11th film to hold this record since Birth of a Nation made $9,283,673 in its 1915 release. Some other facts to put things in perspective: James Cameron…

UATV’s Razorback Reels has released the shortlist for the 3rd Annual Silver Reels Awards – the only awards show where the winners are picked by UATV viewers. Ten films in each category have been shortlisted.  The Silver Reels Nominating Panel will select the nominees.  The nominees will be announced on February 1st. Then, UATV viewers…

Feature favorites like Up in the Air and The Road won’t come to Fayetteville for weeks (if not months), but it’s not too early to start your Oscar viewing. There are only 10 films left in the running for the Academy Award for Best Picture.  3 of them are available to watch (legally) for free…

Razorback Reels presents the best movies of the 00’s tonight at 8 pm on UATV. The decade has featured great films in a wide variety of genres, and Aaron and Adam’s two lists reflect that diversity.  From sci-fi blockbusters to foreign art films, these 18 pictures offer an overview of the past nine years.  At…

At 8 pm, Razorback Reels brings you the latest reviews and – in a fit of topicality –  a look at health care in the movies.  Featured hospital scenes include: MASH (1970, pictured below) The Dark Knight (2008) Sicko (2007) I’m sure we missed some good ones.  What are your favorite scenes?  (One Flew Over…