“8th & Ocean: The Complete First Season”: Somehow, this wasn’t the complete last season. From MTV, this insipid show about 10 models living and bickering together in Miami’s South Beach carries with it the requisite melodrama, sex and trite story lines you expect, but it fails to match the energy of the driving soundtrack. A stale whiff of “The Real World” runs through it, with all of these kids trying to get their big break in the model industry. Modest interest is generated in the vacuum of vanity the show courts, and some juice is squeezed from demanding agency owner Irene Marie, whose megalips should be employed as floats for a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Still, in the end, the lot of it is as deep as a pore. Grade: C-

“Hart to Hart: Complete Second Season”: Quintessentially late ’70s TV, so retro it’s almost hip, with stars Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers glamming it up in tuxedos and sequins as they solve their share of family-friendly murder mysteries. Highlights include the shows “‘Tis the Season to be Murdered,” “Murder in the Saddle,” “Getting Aweigh with Murder” (it’s OK to groan), and of course, “The Latest in High Fashion Murder.” With sidekicks Max (Lionel Sander) and dog Freeway, the series has held up – but only as pure kitsch. Grade: B

“Jayne Mansfield Collection”: She always was considered a second-rate Marilyn Monroe, an exaggeration of the female form. Still, while on many levels those criticisms are true, there were movies (“The Wayward Bus,” “Kiss Them for Me”) that revealed a flash of dramatic promise before her career sank in the ’60s and then her life was cut gruesomely short in a 1967 car accident. Unfortunately, “Bus” and “Kiss” aren’t part of this new boxed set from Fox, which doesn’t do much in mounting a defense for Mansfield’s legacy. Instead, the three films assembled are – “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?,” “The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw” and “The Girl Can’t Help It” – celebrate her only as a likable caricature. The included A&E documentary, “Blonde Ambition,” is worthwhile. Grade: C+

“Laurel & Hardy Collection – Vol. 2”: None of the films selected here finds the comic duo at its best, though the affection many feel for Laurel and Hardy likely will lift their perception of what otherwise is only a mildly diverting boxed set. Included are 1943’s “The Dancing Masters,” 1942’s “A Haunting We Will Go” and 1945’s Bullfighter,” with each featuring audio commentaries and theatrical trailers. Sometimes, the antics are fun, but missing is the inspired lunacy enjoyed in Stan and Ollie’s early short films. Grade: B-

“Silent Hill – Blu-Ray”: Initially, what unfolds is creepy and atmospheric, with Rose (Radha Mitchell) fleeing with her freaked-out daughter, Sharon (Jodelle Ferland), to Silent Hill, W.Va., where a parallel universe absorbs them and lady cop Cybil (Laurie Holden). It’s the monsters and the sets that “Silent Hill” get right; they are imaginative and well-drawn in ways that the convoluted plot isn’t. After a promising first hour, the film slides into a muddy, clumsy affair in which the many subplots tear away at the center, shredding any trace of sense along the way. Rated R. Grade: C-

“Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines – HD DVD”: A violent, $150 million sci-fi action blockbuster that finds Arnold Schwarzenegger back in fine form in what’s arguably the most famous role of his career – the T1. Now on HD DVD, the film is pure meat-and-potatoes fun, offering audiences precisely the sort of wrecking-ball entertainment they’ve come to expect from the franchise. The movie is almost unforgiving in its leanness and its huge action pieces – in one scene alone, an entire city block is demolished. The villain is of particular note. She’s a leather-clad Terminatrix (Kristanna Loken), who is armed with just the right mix of blonde good looks and street-smart savvy to stir the film’s intended audience of hungry young men. Rated PG-13. Grade: B+

“The Unit: Season One”: Heavily touted as David Mamet’s first foray into television. It’s a strange, off-beat hybrid, melding elements of “The Shield” and “24” with flashes of “Desperate Housewives.” Dennis Haysbert is Jonas Blane, the head of the Army’s Delta Force, a top-secret Special Forces unit that enlists in all sorts of bullet-biting bravery. Scott Foley is Bob Brown, the new recruit folded into the mix who takes on terrorists while his pregnant wife, Kim (Audrey Marie Anderson), takes on a few of her own – the wives of the other Unit members. The dialogue can be very good – it has energy. So do the storylines, which are swift. The problem? Sometimes, those qualities come at the cost of developing the characters, which must be fleshed out in the second season if this promising series is to continue. Grade: B-

“X-Men: The Last Stand”: Well, hopefully not the last stand, though this popular franchise is starting to show some wear. Leading the good mutants is Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), owner of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, a man who believes in a world in which humans and mutants should coexist in harmony and thrive as one. But what is Xavier to do when it’s announced that there now is a cure for the mutant gene he and others possess, and that it if employed, it will wipe out their very existence? For Xavier and his posse, which includes Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Rogue (Anna Paquin), and Storm (Halle Berry), the only response is to fight back. Ian McKellan returns as Magneto, with two new characters introduced to the mix – Kelsey Grammer in a fine turn as the rather hirsute Dr. Henry McCoy and Ben Foster as the bewinged Warren Worthington III. The film’s action scenes are every bit as tight and as ingenious as you expect, though there is a caveat – the series’ familiarity is starting to weaken its core. Rated PG-13. Grade: B-