Movies

Movie reviews that focus on the psychosocial development of a youth and often involves great conflict and transformation

Music

Introductions, Previews and Reviews of Treble Music with focus on choirs, boy sopranos, young singers and performers.

Short Movies

Reviews of coming of age shorts. (films that have a duration > than 1 minute and < than 15 minutes with focus on the character ,the visual drama or plot twists)

Books

Coming of age books and audio books review

Billy Elliot the Musical

Profiles of the young actors who play the title role in Billy Elliot the Musical as well as other BETM related articles.

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Zoomerne
January 9, 2010 – 5:22 am | View Comments
Zoomerne

A film about friendship, secrets and espionage.Zoomerne reviewed by Ikarus for theskykid.com

Le grand chemin
June 6, 2009 – 11:32 am | View Comments
Le grand chemin

An adventures of an 9 years old boy from Paris in a remote French village.  The way he reacted to the things he saw in the village in a way reminded me of the Spanish …

The Way I Spent the End of the World
June 2, 2009 – 1:16 pm | View Comments
The Way I Spent the End of the World

There is something in common in  movies coming from East Europe – especially of the ones who focus on the period before 1989. I have seen my fair share of them and probably that is …

The Greenhouse effect / Парниковый эффект
April 13, 2009 – 7:47 am | View Comments
The Greenhouse effect / Парниковый эффект

I knew about the Greenhouse effect for a while.  It has been recommended for me several times .  I thought that the film`s will be a sci-fi and will deal with some outer space – …

Benny’s Gym
March 10, 2009 – 10:13 am | View Comments
Benny’s Gym

After reading about the short film Benny’s Gym in the blogs of Ikarus I knew that I had to see it for myself. It is another  short movie from Norway – and I am using …

Dreaming About You/Anoche Sone Contigo
February 23, 2009 – 3:06 pm | View Comments
Dreaming About You/Anoche Sone Contigo

Dreaming about you is one of the theme movies of the coming of age genre. It is a Mexican movie and is know better with its original name Anoche Sone Contigo. The film is released …

Al otro lado
February 14, 2009 – 6:31 pm | View Comments
Al otro lado

Fans of coming of age movies won`t be disappointed – neither the one who expect well made drama. Yet I expected a bit more from a film I have heard a lot of. Al otro …

Finding Neverland
October 3, 2007 – 1:17 am | View Comments
Finding Neverland

Before even starting my review I think that it would be fair to let you know that I not only a fan of the movie and book about Peter Pan , but believe to …