After bonding over a shared affinity for country, bluegrass and folk music, Marcus Mumford, Country Winston, Ben Lovett and Ted Dwane began collaborating in 2007, with an enthusiasm that helped land them at the forefront of London's underground folk scene.

An epic journey through nine circles of fiery hell filled with monstrous beasts and condemned souls — Italian poet Dante Alighieri didn't know it at the time, but in the 14th century, he mapped out a pretty sweet video game. Some Dante scholars are a little miffed.

Chinese Theaters have pulled the popular Avatar film from theaters to make way for a Confucius biopic. Many Chinese bloggers, however, surmise the the government shortened the run of the film out of fear of some unsettling anti-government themes.