The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

'Catch a Fire'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Mature high school juniors and older.

What you should know: This movie tells the real-life story of Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke), an apolitical oil-refinery foreman, family man and soccer coach in 1980s South Africa. All of that changes when he is wrongly accused of a terrorist act, jailed and tortured. Tim Robbins also stars.

Language: One use of the f-word and a couple of milder words.

Sexual situations and nudity: A man is forced to take off his clothes while being arrested. References to infidelity and an illegitimate child are made.

Violence/scary situations: People are shot, sometimes fatally, imprisoned, interrogated and tortured. The movie dramatizes deadly raids, funerals, explosions and the consequences of living under apartheid.

Drug and alcohol use: Adults are shown drinking.

'The Queen'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Mature tweens and up.

What you should know: The days immediately after the death of Princess Diana are dramatized and replayed (through archival TV footage) in this movie starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II. She is reluctant to join Prime Minister Tony Blair in a public display of mourning for her former daughter-in-law.

Language: One use of the f-word and some milder language.

Sexual situations and nudity: None.

Violence/scary situations: News clips from the time of Princess Diana's 1997 death from a car accident are threaded throughout and an animal carcass and severed animal head are shown.

Drug and alcohol use: Adults reach for alcohol with regularity but no one overindulges.