Category: Rob Reviews
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Rob Reviews: PNC Park
PNC Park, located just feet from the Allegheny River, is said by many baseball enthusiasts to be the best ballpark in the major leagues. As visiting all 30 MLB parks is something of a bucket list for me, I had to see this place for myself.
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Rob’s Retro Review: Miami Vice
As a child of the 80s, as a Gen Xer, I never watched a single episode of Miami Vice from beginning to end…until last month.
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Rob reviews “Men of a Certain Age“
How many middle-aged men are going to devote time to a weekly one-hour drama?
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Indiana Jones and the law of diminishing returns
Nostalgia has a way of magnifying greatness sometimes
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Rob reviews…Black Adam (and weighs in on the future of DC Films)
Last night, after missing it’s all-too-brief theatrical run, I watched Black Adam for the first time on HBO Max. That they’re calling the movie a commercial flop is hardly a surprise. It wasn’t terrible; but I’m glad that I waited until it started streaming to watch it.
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Rob reviews…Shoeless Joe
Is Shoeless Joe a better story than a Field of Dreams? I don’t know that it is. Furthermore, I don’t know if I can give an unbiased assessment of the two. I’ve been watching Field of dreams for the last 30 years and I’ve only read the novel once.
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Rob reviews…Eternals
Eternals does a great job of introducing roughly a dozen new characters in a relatively short amount of time. The movie is able to introduce the characters, their dynamic with the Celestials, their conflict with the Deviants all at the same time.
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Rob Reviews… Zack Snyder’s Justice League
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a comic book junkie! As a young kid, I loved comic books because of the costumes and the larger than life superheroics. As an adult, I’ve come to realize that superhero stories are are modern day myths. That, and superhero stores…
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Rob Reviews: 11/22/63
A few weeks back, I finished reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Incidentally, this is the FIRST Stephen King novel I’ve ever read.
Rebuilding Rob 