Spectator competition winners: filmericks

In Competition No. 3257, you were invited to summarise a film in limerick form.

A nod to Ezra Haber Glenn, American academic, film reviewer and inventor of the filmerick. Here’s his take on Chloé Zhao’s 2020 Nomadland.

They may think that you don’t have a plan, When they see that you poop in a can,       But it’s them that did go mad,       You hard-working nomad: You’ve a home on the road in your van.

In a large entry, it was pleasing to see so many unfamiliar names rubbing shoulders with the vets. Honourable mentions go to Hugh Keyte, Janine Beacham, Mike Greenhough, Philip Machin, Dorothy Pope and Philip Wilson. The winners pocket £9 each.

The Austrian scenes are aesthetic, Von Trapp kids are cute but emetic,       There’s oodles and oodles       Of schnitzels and strudels – Don’t watch it if you’re diabetic. David Silverman/The Sound of Music

Dr Frankenstein had an idea: To assemble a creature of fear.