Powershell to get Descriptions/Reviews of Windows Store apps ?

I am so wildly excited that Win10 will come with a real package manager as well as that the idea of programmatically accessing Windows Store items for CRUD is a supported feature. This is a huge win for MS over Apple imho.
The other thing that drives me crazy about Apple store (ie besides being hard/impossible to programmatically add/remove) and is similar to the Windows Store for win8 is the GUI-only display of pre-sales/pre-install information.
Is there a way to get info about a Windows store app from the command line, eg Powershell? For example, can I print a list of review with their posting dates and the manufacturer's description?
thank you!

I love this! ty, here is a sample output ;
Name : Microsoft.ZuneMusic
Publisher : CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US
Architecture : X64
ResourceId :
Version : 2.6.672.0
PackageFullName : Microsoft.ZuneMusic_2.6.672.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
InstallLocation : C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ZuneMusic_2.6.672.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
IsFramework : False
PackageFamilyName : Microsoft.ZuneMusic_8wekyb3d8bbwe
PublisherId : 8wekyb3d8bbwe
IsResourcePackage : False
IsBundle : False
IsDevelopmentMode : False
Dependencies : {Microsoft.VCLibs.120.00_12.0.21005.1_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe,
Microsoft.Media.PlayReadyClient.2_2.11.2154.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe,
Microsoft.WinJS.2.0_1.0.9600.17018_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe,
Microsoft.ZuneMusic_2.6.672.0_neutral_resources.scale-140_8wekyb3d8bbwe}

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