{"id":1921,"date":"2017-06-16T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/dev\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2018-09-14T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T15:50:48","slug":"band-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/band-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Band Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you believe in the power of love and the power of music Band Aid<\/span> hits the right notes. This little movie has some big performances by Zoe Lister-Jones as Anna and Adam Pally (TV\u2019s The Mindy Project, Iron Man 3)\u00a0\u00a0as Ben. They are a married couple struggling with all aspects of their lives. Now in their 30\u2019s, the future doesn\u2019t look so bright anymore. Hopes for high powered artistic careers aren\u2019t happening and a miscarriage derailed their plans to start a family. All that\u2019s left is bickering and arguing. They really know how to get on each other\u2019s nerves.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is Lister-Jones\u2019 (Breaking Upwards<\/span>) directorial debut and she\u2019s also written the script. The struggles are based on Lister-Jones\u2019 own marriage with her working partner and husband. He is not as involved in this film. And she hired an all female crew for the production. It\u2019s all handled with her steady hand. Watching this film doesn\u2019t feel like we\u2019re watching a vanity project. Even though Anna is the emotional center, Lister-Jones leaves room for Ben\u2019s pain and angst. They are an engaging pair who clearly love each other, yet we are watching their relationship slowly dissolve with each stinging criticism and rebuke. <\/span><\/p>\n

They keep trying marriage counseling, but all that manages to do is give them a platform to start another fight. They find that the hook that may save them and their marriage is music. They dig out old instruments and sing,\u00a0\u00a0so Ben comes up with the notion of taking their arguments into the garage and turn their fights into songs<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”1923″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”1924″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”1925″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]\n

Enter their goofy neighbor, recovering sex addict, Dave, (Fred Armisen) who plays drums. All the songs are original and somewhat engaging, if not funny. The couple has fits and starts coming up with enough to perform and grow apart and back together as they play music together calling their band \u201cThe Dirty Dishes.\u201d There are some tender moments and some uncomfortable ones as they face what\u2019s really bothering both of them.<\/p>\n

Lister-Jones and Pally are engaging as the couple interacting well. Armisen is used more as a catalyst in some ways for the emotional ups and downs. He\u2019s so awkward, he\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n

Songs are often whatever is on the songwriter\u2019s mind at the time and this is no exception, except that these are a little darker and more pointed. Not unlike the songs from Taylor Swift based on her failed relationships. This couple also laughs at some of their foibles and it becomes some kind of\u00a0\u00a0cathartic therapy. The lesson here may be to learn how to laugh at yourselves as you face what\u2019s bothering you and maybe you can work it out. You see how hard this couple tries to do just that. Is it just a temporary band aid? We\u2019ll have to listen to more songs to see if the lyrics change.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TZoNcq49zUY” el_width=”70″ align=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] If you believe in the power of love and the power of music Band Aid hits the right notes. This little movie has some big performances by Zoe Lister-Jones as Anna and Adam Pally (TV\u2019s The Mindy Project, Iron Man 3)\u00a0\u00a0as Ben. They are a married couple struggling with all aspects of their lives. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[231,35,25,232,230],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-adam-pally","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-fred-armisen","tag-zoe-lister-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}