It's starting to get really cold now, so thank goodness for the DVD release of Mamma Mia! this week. One of the massive box office hits of the summer, the film based on the stage musical will bring some welcome sunshine and laughter into your living room.
Meryl Streep is on wonderful all-singing all-dancing form as Donna, a single mum with a run-down hotel on an idyllic Greek island. 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was one of the big movie releases this year I was half uber-excited about, and half secretly dreading. As a big fan of the first set of movies, the prospect of a fourth, years later was a little scary. Harrison Ford was 64 years old during filming, and I didn't want the memory of our whip-cracking, snake-fearing hero to be tarnished. 
If you can't get enough Strictly Come Dancing in your life then have I got some great news for you: the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour DVD is available to buy from today!
Eight celebrities from the first five series took to the road at the beginning of the year, and performed 40 live shows in front of thousands of adoring fans. I was lucky enough to catch one of their London dates and boy was it a fun show! 
Neighbours is a much-loved institution in my household, so I'm super excited about the release of this DVD, which brings together some of the best ever installments.
Neighbours: The Iconic Episodes Vol. 1 contains 23 episodes and includes the 1000th episode party celebration special. 
Sarah Silverman's feature length stand up show Jesus Is Magic has finally been released in the UK this week, having been filmed all the way back in 2004. Rather than just a recorded routine, her performance is interspersed with outside sketches and songs.
The Emmy Award winning stand up comic may have come to your attention following her and then-boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel's ongoing joke about f*cking Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
We finished reading Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited this week as our first PopUK Book Club title, and this month a special collectors edition box set of the award-winning ITV series was also released, ahead of the new film version's release on Friday.
The four disc box set contains the entire collection of 11 episodes, filmed on location at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire and first broadcast in 1981.
The adaptation stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder, Anthony Andrews as Sebastian, Dianna Quick as Julia, Sir Laurence Oliver as Lord Marchmain, Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain and Sir John Gielgud as Edward Ryder. 
If you missed the hugely entertaining Lost in Austen on ITV then fear not, as the series is released on DVD today!
The four-part drama takes Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and mixes it up by throwing in a modern day woman, Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper).
Amanda, who swaps places with Elizabeth Bennet (Gemma Arterton) thanks to a secret portal, tries her best to keep the plot of her favourite novel on course, but she can't control the action as bizarre new twists start to emerge.
Do you remember Maid Marian and Her Merry Men? The series ran from 1989 to 1994 on the BBC, and I loved it — it was fun family weekend viewing.
All four series came out on DVD this week in a complete boxset and I took a trip down memory lane and watched a selection of the funny nostalgia-inducing episodes — which have aged surprisingly well. 
Smart People is a blackly comic drama set in Pittsburgh, which focuses on widowed professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), his study-mad daughter Vanessa (Ellen Page) and his student poet son James (Ashton Holmes).
Lawrence struggles to communicate with his family and his colleagues at the university where he teaches literature, even though his is a "smart person".
When his adopted brother Chuck (Thomas Haden Church) moves in, the slacker brings some much needed warmth in to the family, which is further improved when Lawrence gets involved with another "smart person", Dr Janet Hartigan (Sarah Jessica Parker).
I've seen Forgetting Sarah Marshall a handful of times now, and after each viewing I love it a little bit more — so you can be sure that I'm going to recommend this DVD (out today) highly!
I think your enjoyment of this movie will partly depend on whether you're in the camp that love Russell Brand (or are fairly indifferent), or the camp that hate him with a vengeance. I'm in the former, so his part in this film is a highlight for me — he plays English rock star Aldous Snow, the man that Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) has lost his TV star girlfriend to.
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