Category: Rob Reviews
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Rob Reviews: Ahsoka

the show, like other Star Wars and MCU offerings before it, seems to be interested in moving along the overarching narrative, rather than focusing on its lead character.
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My all-time favorite album

I enjoy the “entire album experience“ but it has become some thing of a lost art
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Rob Reviews…Guaranteed Rate Field – Chicago, IL

This past weekend marked my first visit to Guaranteed Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox. GRF is my 5th current MLB park and 9th overall. Located on Chicago’s southside, the neighborhood gets something of a bad reputation. I understand, it’s nothing like the north side of the city,…
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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.
