Cracker (1993)TV series

Our cousins across the water at The Times of London have published one of the first reviews of “The Simpsons Movie” and pronounced it….ehkkkkksellent! It gets  four stars out of five. (Warning: apparently this review contains lots of spoilers; I read only the opening line.) I’m seeing the flick on Tuesday afternoon and am going to try to avoid reading the reviews before I see it. Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly reports that the writers were still refining jokes right down to the final days, worried that critics who have lost faith in the TV version over the past few subpar seasons would say haw-ha! Writer Al Jean promises that “as an event, I think it’ll rank somewhere between...