I just read while cruising the blogs that the following new movies are due out soon:
A new Indiana Jones movie with Harrison Ford as a very old Indiana. (How old is Harrison Ford, anyway?) Director Steven Spielberg and Executive Producer George Lucas are also back in the saddle for this one. It has a May, 2008 release date.
A sequel to National Treasure. Mrs. Happy Housewife says the original National Treasure contains historical inaccuracies. No, no, say it ain’t so! We were using that movie as the backbone of our early American history curriculum. 🙂
The new National Treasure movie is about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. So that should take us through the end of the Civil War.
Becoming Jane, the movie about Jane Austen’s life and love, will be in theaters in August. I think it will be fun as long as no one’s expecting historical fact instead of fictionalized romance based Austen’s life.
Golden Door is already in release in some cities, according to the official website. It’s a story about immigration to the U.S. through Ellis Island in the early 1900’s. More American history curriculum. 🙂 I’m going to have an entire course covering the span of U.S. history soon. Not really, but the movie does sound interesting.
Finally, they’re not new movies, but Melissa Wiley is compiling a great list of movie suggestions for her Netflix queue. I’m definitely going to add some of them to my Blockbuster list.
Instead of a whip and hat, Indy’s new props are a walker and Depends. Seriously though, Ford’s last movie where his family is held hostage really pained me. He just isn’t Indy or Han Solo anymore. Some people age well but I think Ford’s done a bit of hard living and it shows.