Couch Potato 🥔🇨🇦 🇬🇧
@couchpotatouk.bsky.social
Chronicling the best (and worst) of UK film and TV. If I’m not at the cinema, I’m probably on the sofa with a brew.
🍿📺 Watching. 🎧 Listening. ✍️ Reviewing.
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🎧https://record.club/couchpotato
🍿📺 Watching. 🎧 Listening. ✍️ Reviewing.
🍿https://boxd.it/6LsOx
📺 https://srlzd.com/u/CouchPotatoUK
🎧https://record.club/couchpotato
I'm putting my album collection to use, reviewing it one album at a time
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record.club/couchpotato/...
Wesley Winegarden's review of 'Aerosmith' (1973) by Aerosmith
🎶Good evening people welcome to the show 🎶 The Birth of the Boston Bad BoysAerosmith’s debut serves as a gritty, unpolished manifesto of…
record.club
January 25, 2026 at 2:30 PM
I'm putting my album collection to use, reviewing it one album at a time
record.club/couchpotato/...
record.club/couchpotato/...
Mrs Couch Potato wants to watch Caddyshack 🤔
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Mrs Couch Potato wants to watch Caddyshack 🤔
Day 2 of my 10 day holiday
Off to watch my hapless football team attempt to win a match.
Then later will keep the rage virus raging by watching 28 Years Later to refresh my memory for when I go watch the Bone Temple (finally) next week
Off to watch my hapless football team attempt to win a match.
Then later will keep the rage virus raging by watching 28 Years Later to refresh my memory for when I go watch the Bone Temple (finally) next week
January 24, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Day 2 of my 10 day holiday
Off to watch my hapless football team attempt to win a match.
Then later will keep the rage virus raging by watching 28 Years Later to refresh my memory for when I go watch the Bone Temple (finally) next week
Off to watch my hapless football team attempt to win a match.
Then later will keep the rage virus raging by watching 28 Years Later to refresh my memory for when I go watch the Bone Temple (finally) next week
🎥A time capsule that’s equal parts charming and uncomfortable. Being forgotten on your birthday is such a small problem, but at 16 it feels like the universe has snubbed you. Hughes nails the scale of it all: everything is embarrassing, everything matters, and no one seems to notice but you. 🎂🎈
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January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM
🎥A time capsule that’s equal parts charming and uncomfortable. Being forgotten on your birthday is such a small problem, but at 16 it feels like the universe has snubbed you. Hughes nails the scale of it all: everything is embarrassing, everything matters, and no one seems to notice but you. 🎂🎈
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Mrs Couch Potato has caught the John Hughes bug... So we're going to watch Sixteen Candles, apparently she's never seen it
January 23, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Mrs Couch Potato has caught the John Hughes bug... So we're going to watch Sixteen Candles, apparently she's never seen it
🎥 The "lost" Hughes movie that functions as a poignant meditation on wanting a life more than actually living one. It’s ultimately let down by a weak ending and the fact that Jennifer Connelly is framed as a mere object of desire rather than a real person. 🛒🛼
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January 23, 2026 at 8:24 PM
🎥 The "lost" Hughes movie that functions as a poignant meditation on wanting a life more than actually living one. It’s ultimately let down by a weak ending and the fact that Jennifer Connelly is framed as a mere object of desire rather than a real person. 🛒🛼
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Do dogs ever get full?
It doesn't matter what I eat, Bruno is always asking for his share.
It doesn't matter what I eat, Bruno is always asking for his share.
January 23, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Do dogs ever get full?
It doesn't matter what I eat, Bruno is always asking for his share.
It doesn't matter what I eat, Bruno is always asking for his share.
🎬Far more than just an 80s rom-com; it’s a stylish, quietly sad exploration of the class divide told through hallway politics and synth-pop. A bittersweet coming-of-age story wrapped up in a perfect pink bow. 🎀🎷
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January 23, 2026 at 4:12 PM
🎬Far more than just an 80s rom-com; it’s a stylish, quietly sad exploration of the class divide told through hallway politics and synth-pop. A bittersweet coming-of-age story wrapped up in a perfect pink bow. 🎀🎷
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I'm putting all my eggs into a giant John Hughes basket today
🏩 Pretty in Pink
🍿 Then off to the fabulous Lumiere theatre to see Career Opportunities... One of the only Hughes films I have never seen
🏩 Pretty in Pink
🍿 Then off to the fabulous Lumiere theatre to see Career Opportunities... One of the only Hughes films I have never seen
January 23, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I'm putting all my eggs into a giant John Hughes basket today
🏩 Pretty in Pink
🍿 Then off to the fabulous Lumiere theatre to see Career Opportunities... One of the only Hughes films I have never seen
🏩 Pretty in Pink
🍿 Then off to the fabulous Lumiere theatre to see Career Opportunities... One of the only Hughes films I have never seen
Great interview with one of my favourite actors.
👬 Matt Ben
👢Dorky boots
✍️ Good Will Hunting
🎬 Bourne
🎬 The Rip
youtu.be/Ew8DPVwhyhc?...
👬 Matt Ben
👢Dorky boots
✍️ Good Will Hunting
🎬 Bourne
🎬 The Rip
youtu.be/Ew8DPVwhyhc?...
Matt Damon Talks The Rip, Boston Sports, and More | Skip Intro | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
youtu.be
January 23, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Great interview with one of my favourite actors.
👬 Matt Ben
👢Dorky boots
✍️ Good Will Hunting
🎬 Bourne
🎬 The Rip
youtu.be/Ew8DPVwhyhc?...
👬 Matt Ben
👢Dorky boots
✍️ Good Will Hunting
🎬 Bourne
🎬 The Rip
youtu.be/Ew8DPVwhyhc?...
New Trailers this week:
A couple added to my watch list:
Lee (this is only my third film) Cronin's The Mummy
The Bride
youtube.com/watch?v=RH4B...
A couple added to my watch list:
Lee (this is only my third film) Cronin's The Mummy
The Bride
youtube.com/watch?v=RH4B...
New Trailers This Week | Week 3 (2026)
YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Trailers
youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:58 PM
New Trailers this week:
A couple added to my watch list:
Lee (this is only my third film) Cronin's The Mummy
The Bride
youtube.com/watch?v=RH4B...
A couple added to my watch list:
Lee (this is only my third film) Cronin's The Mummy
The Bride
youtube.com/watch?v=RH4B...
The #Oscars nominations dropped today. I couldn’t care less.
Movies should be judged by audiences, not by marketing budgets, campaigns, and quiet backroom deals.
Movies should be judged by audiences, not by marketing budgets, campaigns, and quiet backroom deals.
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The #Oscars nominations dropped today. I couldn’t care less.
Movies should be judged by audiences, not by marketing budgets, campaigns, and quiet backroom deals.
Movies should be judged by audiences, not by marketing budgets, campaigns, and quiet backroom deals.
A low-budget virus that effectively rewired the genre and my brain. When the rats start running and the humans get savage, you realize the "infected" aren't the only monsters here. 🏚️🧟♂️
boxd.it/2aXU
boxd.it/2aXU
28 Days Later (2002)
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the ...
boxd.it
January 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
A low-budget virus that effectively rewired the genre and my brain. When the rats start running and the humans get savage, you realize the "infected" aren't the only monsters here. 🏚️🧟♂️
boxd.it/2aXU
boxd.it/2aXU
I'm going all in this week with 28.
Currently rewatching 28 Days Later...
Currently rewatching 28 Days Later...
January 21, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I'm going all in this week with 28.
Currently rewatching 28 Days Later...
Currently rewatching 28 Days Later...
So UK license fee money is going to be used to educate, entertain and inform the world... If ever there was an argument to scrap the licence fee, this is it
variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
BBC Confirms Landmark YouTube Deal, Including New Channels and Winter Olympics Coverage
The arrangement includes new BBC channels on YouTube and Winter Olympics coverage
variety.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:23 AM
So UK license fee money is going to be used to educate, entertain and inform the world... If ever there was an argument to scrap the licence fee, this is it
variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
Barbecue beef Hula Hoops definitely get a place on the Mount Rushmore of snacks
January 21, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Barbecue beef Hula Hoops definitely get a place on the Mount Rushmore of snacks
🪫 battery 41%
January 21, 2026 at 8:01 AM
🪫 battery 41%
📺If you’re a fan of the annual Harlan Coben Netflix tradition, you know exactly what you’re getting here. It’s a rollercoaster of twists, turns, and gaping plot holes that somehow stays on the tracks.
Read my review of Harlan Coben's Run Away 👇
srlzd.com/s/3ba14
Read my review of Harlan Coben's Run Away 👇
srlzd.com/s/3ba14
Run Away (TV Series 2026) - Serializd
How far will you go to bring her back?. A desperate father searching for his runaway daughter gets caught up in a murder case — and stumbles upon secrets which could destroy his family for good.
srlzd.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:41 PM
📺If you’re a fan of the annual Harlan Coben Netflix tradition, you know exactly what you’re getting here. It’s a rollercoaster of twists, turns, and gaping plot holes that somehow stays on the tracks.
Read my review of Harlan Coben's Run Away 👇
srlzd.com/s/3ba14
Read my review of Harlan Coben's Run Away 👇
srlzd.com/s/3ba14
Forgot my coffee on the kitchen counter 😡
January 20, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Forgot my coffee on the kitchen counter 😡
They really don't make 90-minute frantic bangers like this anymore. 📱🚗 Cellular (2004) is pure, unadulterated adrenaline from the first dial to the final hang-up.
My 100-word deep dive:
boxd.it/cIWmRf
#Throwback #FilmReview
My 100-word deep dive:
boxd.it/cIWmRf
#Throwback #FilmReview
A ★★★½ review of Cellular (2004)
They really don't make 90-minute frantic bangers like this anymore In an era of bloated three-hour epics, Cellular is a breath of fresh, adrenaline-soaked air. It’s 90 minutes of pure, unadulterated ...
boxd.it
January 19, 2026 at 5:56 PM
They really don't make 90-minute frantic bangers like this anymore. 📱🚗 Cellular (2004) is pure, unadulterated adrenaline from the first dial to the final hang-up.
My 100-word deep dive:
boxd.it/cIWmRf
#Throwback #FilmReview
My 100-word deep dive:
boxd.it/cIWmRf
#Throwback #FilmReview
🎥📄I've got some annual leave to use up, so I have the end of January off. Which of course means I will be working on ticking some stuff off my watchlist.
Does anyone have anything that I should be adding to my watchlist to fill the void?
Does anyone have anything that I should be adding to my watchlist to fill the void?
January 18, 2026 at 3:34 PM
🎥📄I've got some annual leave to use up, so I have the end of January off. Which of course means I will be working on ticking some stuff off my watchlist.
Does anyone have anything that I should be adding to my watchlist to fill the void?
Does anyone have anything that I should be adding to my watchlist to fill the void?
Added to my watchlist.
This is one of the few John Hughes films that I haven't seen and my local community cinema is showing this Friday and because I am a member, I can see this for £1... How bad can it be?
boxd.it/1Ksw
This is one of the few John Hughes films that I haven't seen and my local community cinema is showing this Friday and because I am a member, I can see this for £1... How bad can it be?
boxd.it/1Ksw
Career Opportunities (1991)
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room...
boxd.it
January 18, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Added to my watchlist.
This is one of the few John Hughes films that I haven't seen and my local community cinema is showing this Friday and because I am a member, I can see this for £1... How bad can it be?
boxd.it/1Ksw
This is one of the few John Hughes films that I haven't seen and my local community cinema is showing this Friday and because I am a member, I can see this for £1... How bad can it be?
boxd.it/1Ksw
🎥📄Added to the watchlist after listening to the latest edition of The Rewatchables podcast.
I've either seen this and forgotten or I have never seen it before for whatever reason.
What do you guys think, is this a good decision, or should I be making better life choices?
boxd.it/26v8
I've either seen this and forgotten or I have never seen it before for whatever reason.
What do you guys think, is this a good decision, or should I be making better life choices?
boxd.it/26v8
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
boxd.it
January 18, 2026 at 10:17 AM
🎥📄Added to the watchlist after listening to the latest edition of The Rewatchables podcast.
I've either seen this and forgotten or I have never seen it before for whatever reason.
What do you guys think, is this a good decision, or should I be making better life choices?
boxd.it/26v8
I've either seen this and forgotten or I have never seen it before for whatever reason.
What do you guys think, is this a good decision, or should I be making better life choices?
boxd.it/26v8
Station to Station is Bowie at his most dangerous and dazzling.
Read my review of this fantastic album 👇
record.club/couchpotato/...
Read my review of this fantastic album 👇
record.club/couchpotato/...
Wesley Winegarden's review of 'Station to Station' (1976) by David Bowie
Station to Station is Bowie at his most dangerous and dazzling. Enter the Thin White Duke: living on milk, peppers, and cocaine, yet somehow…
record.club
January 18, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Station to Station is Bowie at his most dangerous and dazzling.
Read my review of this fantastic album 👇
record.club/couchpotato/...
Read my review of this fantastic album 👇
record.club/couchpotato/...