who would have thought vladimir boone would play that. for the film review with ben brown —— who would have thought vladimir putin would play that? hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have this week? interesting week. we have mary shelley. basically a film about the creation of frankenstein. the first purge which is the prequel to the long—running series, i know you are a huge fan. and swimming with men. rob brydon takes the plunge. so, mary shelley, tell us about that. my son was doing it for english a—level recently. so, basically it is a story about mary shelley's life, and about the creation of frankenstein, which is, as everyone knows, one of the greatest works of literature of all time. it is always very difficult, if you're making a film about the creation of a brilliant work of art, that the inevitable thing will be that it is not as good as the brilliant work of art. let's start by that. it is directed by haifaa al—mansour, and elle