They may call it the Austin Film Festival, but the first wave of panels announced for the writer-centric gathering looks at screens big and small, with the creative forces behind TV hits like The Simpsons and The Last of Us discussing their work alongside the writers of Inside Out 2 and The Bikeriders.

AFS Cinema will be getting ready for Halloween with a special 10th anniversary screening of an Austin original perfectly suited for the spooky season – Emily Hagins’ Grow Up, Tony Phillips.

Reading is fundamental, right? And the producers of It Ends With Us aren't letting people forget the book that the upcoming Hollywood drama starring Blake Lively is based on. They're actively encouraging literacy with a scavenger hunt in Austin on Monday, Aug. 5, around the Little Free Libraries of Hyde Park.

Top priority of the summer: get tickets for the rescheduled 30th anniversary screening of Dazed and Confused, an unmissable event with cast and crew in attendance, presented by the Austin Film Society and Focus Features.

Hey, true believers, how's your fourth wall feeling after Deadpool & Wolverine? This being the 34th movie in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the first time the 20th Century Fox heroes appear in the Sacred Timeline, it's kinda hard to remember what happened when and to who in this ever-expanding and interconnected storyline.

Fantastic Fest is moving back into gaming with the addition Fantastic Games, a new showcase in partnership with indie gaming nonprofit Day of the Devs.

If anyone was going to launch a podcast about Steven Spielberg, it was going to be Eric Vespe. After all, when your first memory is the coffins popping out of the ground at the end of Poltergeist, the die is probably cast.

Some fantastic news – quite literally. Indie gaming fest Fantastic Arcade is returning after a five-year hiatus with a special Fun Size edition.

A win for unions and gaming industry workers in Texas: Quality assurance workers at Blizzard Entertainment – the studio behind the Diablo and Hearthstone franchises – have successfully unionized.