Marvel Episodes

This week the Bad Dads go full corporate: Top 5 Corporate & Tech Jargon — the phrases designed to sound like progress while delivering absolutely nothing. Circle back. Take it offline. Pivot. Blue-sky thinking. Tachyon pulse. If you've ever sat in a meeting thinking "what the actual f does that mean" — this one's for you.Then: Thunderbolts* — Marvel's Phase 5 closer. The Breakfast Club meets the Suicide Squad, if the Breakfast Club had government assassins and instead of Saturday detention, there's a sentient void of existential depression. It's actually quite good.

Mark Steven Johnson's GHOST RIDER (2007) sees daredevil stuntman - see what I did there because the same director also did the Ben Affleck superhero caper about a blind gimp lawyer called DAREDEVIL - Johnny Blaze make a Faustian pact with Mephistopheles which ends up in him becoming a flame-skulled bounty hunter. You know how those Faustian pacts can be. With steampunk Neo-clone villain Blackheart and his band of easily dispatched elemental douchebro's desperately seeking the maguffin which will...