Mother's Day

Don’t laugh; these films are not funny.

There were a lot of great movies in 2016. There were! Please don’t let this list convince you otherwise. The movies were absolutely wonderful this year. Just not these specific movies. These were bad. So, so, so bad. Just awful.

There’s no silence quieter than the one in a movie theater during an bad comedy. At times during Mother’s Day, director Garry Marshall’s newest debasement of a beloved holiday, a hush fell over the theater to rival the quietude at a Benedictine monastery. When the laughter finally came, it’s always at the movie’s expense. This disaster is less deliberately funny than the last movie titled Mother’s Day, and that was a violent horror film.

Having already planted his flag of squeaky-clean ethnically homogeneous courtship on New Year’s Eve with New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day with Valentine’s Day, and America’s most tragic hour with 9/11 Remembrance Day, Garry Marshall will expand his Holiday Cinematic Universe with Mother’s Day this spring...

What is the worst franchise in Hollywood? Transformers? Alvin and the Chipmunks? Underworld? They’re all pretty crummy, but they pale before the abject awfulness of the unnamed franchise Garry Marshall’s been working on for the last couple years, where he takes a holiday everyone loves, cast a bunch of movie stars everyone loves, and puts them in a terrible, terrible movie that everyone hates (but which make a ton of money). First came Valentine’s Day featuring Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, and Jamie Foxx, and it was bad. Then there was New Year’s Day, with Halle Berry, Katherine Heigl, Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank, and Robert freaking De Niro and it was, somehow, much, much worse. Now Marshall’s reign of calendarian terror will continue with Mother’s Day.

It's the morning of Mother's Day and you're not entirely sure what you should make. You look through your pantry and the refrigerator, trying to find the right breakfast food and your eyes land on the pancake mix, perfect! If you were looking to give your mom a great gift for Mother's Day, why shouldn't it be these awesome 'Star Wars' pancakes? Perfect for any geeky son, daughter or even mom. Rea

‘Mother’s Day’ sounds like the next Garry Marshall ensemble comedy centered around a generic holiday. Thankfully, it’s not … and the reality of the situation sounds much more interesting, especially when it stars the two women up above.

We've seen a number of films that have stuck on the shelf hit theaters in the last couple months. Kenneth Lonegran's 'Margaret' was filmed in 2005, and came out six years after the fact, Eddie Murphy's 'A Thousand Words' hits theaters three weeks ago after being shot in 2008. Which makes 'Mother's Day' turn in the closet seem altogether brief. It first screened in December of 2009. Now there's a t