Released today, the 25th Anniversary of the Black Cauldron.

About:  Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron’s power will be invincible! The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team of the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron’s evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed?

The 25th anniversary includes a digital remaster of the original.  Get the 25th Anniversary of the Black Cauldron for $13.99 on Amazon with free shipping

Every summer on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10 am, there are two free children’s movies to pick from at your local Regal Movie Theater.

Check out the schedule to see if there’s a theater near you, and what’s playing each week.  It’s a great free activity for the kids on rainy or too-hot day!  I’m looking forward to taking advantage of this and taking my boys to a couple of these movies while the Festival is running.

I have a fun giveaway for the month of June here on Mommies with Style on our Messgae Boards. Every Monday, one lucky winner and member of the Mommies with Style Message Boards will be selected at random from our Message Board posts to win a movie.  The movies are listed below.  There’s 6 potential winners!

The grand prize for the last week is a DXG Luxe Camcorder.

Start a new topic, reply to an old one – just add value to the boards, enjoy yourself and you’ll be eligible.  

I’ll announce the winners in the Mommy Lounge so be sure to check each week!

No spamming please, valid posts only that contribute to the community and value of the message boards. Anyone who is considered to be spamming will be disqualified.

Get posting!  All posts from today through June 30th will be considered.

Here are the list of prizes:

May 31 - Avatar 3-pack Combo (DVD/Digital Copy/Blu-Ray)
June 7 - Calliou – Calliou Pretends to Be… DVD
June 14 - My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Friendly Tails DVD
June 21 - Super Why: Peter Rabbit & Other Fairytale Adventures DVD
June 28 - Mickey’s Adventures in Wonderland
June 28 – DXG Luxe Camcorder in Pink Argyle

As many of you know, Thursday, April 22nd is Earth Day.  On that day, PBS will be airing the WordGirl episode “Earth Day Girl.”  The language loving superhero saves the planet in this episode. 

We have three prize packs to giveaway to 3 Mommies with Style readers as we spread the word about the episode – the prize includes the “Earth Day Girl” DVD from Paramount (which includes the episode plus 7 others) and a new WordGirl reader book of the same name from Scholastic Press.  Check out http://pbskids.org/wordgirl/ to play cool WordGirl games with your kids.

To enter, leave a comment about what your family does to help the environment or keep green. 

For extra entries, tweet about this giveaway (one extra entry per day – only one please).  Follow and @mommieswstyle so we know you have tweeted it out.

This contest ends on Thursday, April 22nd.  3 winners will be selected and notified after that time.  Please be sure to include your email address in your entry!

In the last few months, my boys have become obsessed with Alvin & the Chipmunks.  It started when they saw the modern-day original version of the movie on TV a few months ago.  Since then, they ask for Alvin & the Chipmunks all of the time.

Lucky for us, we were able to get them out to the theater to see Alvin & the Chipmunks: the Squeakquel.  They loved it.    In fact, we all loved it so much that I ended up downloading most of the soundtrack on my iPhone before we even got home.  True story.  Just so we could hook it up and listen to the music before we got back.

Even if you haven’t seen the original, it’s a movie worth seeing.  Dave and the Chipmunks are back but new to this movie are the Chipettes.

Alvin & the Chipmunks: the Squeakquel releases on DVD on March 30th.  Get it on Amazon with free shipping for $16.99.

You probably remember the Penguins from the Madagascar movie – I know that they were personal favorites of mine.  While watching this movie, I was reminded of how I used to love watching the Tracy Ullman show for the short Simpsons skits all those years ago.  The Penguins definitely steal the show and continue to entertain in Operation: DVD, the first full DVD feature the Penguins have to themselves.

It’s a steal at $11.99 on Amazon right now ($26.99 retail) – and fyi, it’s a full 2-hour feature so you are definitely getting a movie out of this purchase.

If you’re looking for a Valentine’s-themed movie for your kids, this is a cute one to check out.  Get it on Amazon for $26.99 with free shipping.

The boys loved it.  And me?  Only person on the planet who cries at a cartoon Tiny Tim.

We’re also enjoying Putumayo Kid’s Picnic Playground, any food-lover who listens will be sure to say this is “her kinda music” as its a souppot of multicultural songs and beats celebrating food, family and fun.

Speaking of food, another CD we’re enjoying is Best of the Bowl, Ingles y Espanol by Hot Peas and Butter. This bilingual CD makes you want to get up and dance to the Latin beat as they mix the Spanish and English.

On a recent roadtrip coming home from an amusement park, the husband asked if I had any baby-appropriate music for our little one. As in, to lull her (and maybe her brothers) to calmness. Wasn’t he surprised when I popped in RockaBye Baby!’s Lullaby Renditions of Aerosmith. We sang along as the kids relaxed and calmed. From Don’t Want to Miss a Thing to Walk This Way, this is a fun sleeper. Want to gift a RockaBye Baby CD but you don’t know which one to gift? Now available on  the RockaBye Baby Music website: a Digital Download Card where the giftee can any one CD as an MP3 download. The packaging is perfect. I received mine today and opened it without reading, wondering where the CD was? Once I read the gift I was so excited to get to select my own music this time!

Last year we hosted a Halloween Party for several of the kids’ friends. We played games, read stories and enjoyed pizza, all before Trick or Treating. But how much did we need a movie? Planning to host this year? Get a copy of A Very Brave Witch … and more Halloween Stories. In addition to A Very Brave Witch, watch animated 7 other Halloween books including A Dark, Dark Tale. Narrators include Sherry Stringfield and Elle Fanning.

Another Scholastic Storybook Treasures production, the Scholastic Treasury of Classic Bedtime Stories will help you and your kids calm for bed nightly. This collection of 4 DVDs includes 28 animated bedtime favorites including Goodnight Gorilla and Harold and the Purple Crayon. A whole month’s worth of bedtime stories!

Diego’s Arctic Rescue released September 15th, get it on Amazon for $13.49.  And then following in her cousin’s footsteps, Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom released on September 22nd.

For the older crowd, don’t miss out on Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana, which combines a couple of Disney shows into one.  Also Disney’s Jonas Brothers Rock the House released September 22nd and is already getting rave reviews on Amazon!