Pick of the week
The Dink
There is plenty of comic potential to be found in has-been sports pros still living off former glories. In Josh Greenbaum’s amiable comedy, that figure is Dusty “the Hammer” Boyd (New Girl’s Jake Johnson), a tennis prodigy who failed to make the grade and is now reduced to coaching nine-year-olds at his father’s country club. Dad Chuck (a wonderfully dismissive Ed Harris) is fighting a rearguard action against tennis’s increasingly popular offshoot pickleball – “the coronavirus of sport” – and his son is desperate to please him. But when Dusty checks out the new game, he meets sparky older woman Candace (Mary Steenburgen, delightful) and his priorities change.
Friday 24 July, Apple TV
