Help with custom idea…

Hey. I would like to do something like this. I have the will to try things , so I am at the suggestion stage atm.

I want to make a separate page to pull in certain categories that emulates a review directory list.

Lets say I have a category called reviews…
Under that category, I have 5 subs called Widgets A, Widgets B, Widgets C, Widgets D, and Widgets E.

I want to craft a page that would bring in this to look like this;

Reviews
Widgets A (32) Widgets B (4)
Widgets C (21) Widgets D (43)
Widgets E (12)

The Subcategories linked with the number in parenthesis being the number of items in that category. When you click the linked category, it brings up a page that lists all the items in that category in newest 1st order.

I would eventually want to fancy it up a little with icons and such, but I am just looking for a way to display an archive of reviews my site has without hand linking and maintaining them.

Thanks for any guidance.