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This was not a good weekend for super heroes, at least not in the US and Canada. After two weeks of steady box office drops – 66% right on the first week, 60% on top of that afterwards – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was beaten on the domestic front by the Melissa McCarthy vehicle The Boss.

"If I do have some period in which I know some power or money, I will watch out that it does not corrupt me", Francis Ford Coppola told us in December of 1990, when the last installment on his extraordinary Godfather trilogy was being released. Nominated seven times for Golden Globes in the writer and director categories - for The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Cotton Club and The Godfather Part III - Coppola won three times: in 1973, for best director and best screenplay, for The Godfather.

A book by Alice Munro, Runaway, appeared in the hands of Elena Anaya in a scene from Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I live In (2011). That same book, and specifically three of its stories, have inspired the script of Julieta, the latest film from the Spanish filmmaker.

“When I look back (on my career) the early days come to mind. Many times someone from the press had said to me or they’ve written “he was discovered by David Selznick”.

After dominating the charts last weekend, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice showed itself to be not quite as invincible as its namesakes.

With two biopics of jazz icons hitting the screens – Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead, exploring Miles Davis’ life and music, and Robert Budreau’s Born To Be Blue, a re-imagining of critical moments in Chet Baker’s tumultuous career, with Ethan Hawke as the jazz legend- this seemed like an appropriate time to look back at how movies expressed this all-American music style. Check the gallery to see what filmmakers and stars  - Golden Globe nominees and winners, most of them -told us about jazzin’ up the screen.

“You can’t underestimate the power of women role models. ” Says Dame Pippa Harris, a producer, and one of the founders of Neal Street Productions along with Sam Mendes and Caro Newling.

Inspired by the memoirs of a former nurse, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife reflects her life as a midwife at a nursing convent in a deprived part of London during the late 1950s and early 1960s. But really it’s personal stories told against the backdrop of social change, a time when men and women are starting to listen to themselves and question the status quo.

Patty Duke, multi-talented actor who had a long and sometimes troubled career has died. She was nominated four times for a Golden Globe award and won twice -- as Most Promising Newcomer-Female in 1962, for her supporting role in The Miracle Worker, and in 1969 as Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Motion Picture for Me, Natalie.

Mark Wahlberg is in a Boston state of mind. The Golden Globe nominated actor and producer (Best Supporting Actor for The Departed, in 2007 and Best Actor Drama for The Fighter in 2011), is back in his New England hometown shooting the Peter Berg helmed Patriots Day, which chronicles the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the citywide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.