Dave (Tristan Heanue), a respected member of the Guards, has his life turned upside down when his criminal brother Joe (Graham Earley), is released from prison and immediately falls in with the wrong crowd.
The film also co-stars Gemma-Leah Devereux as Amia, a woman who stumbles into the brothers lives in the most unexpected way, and Cardboard Gangsters and Love/Hate star John Connors as local criminal Wallace.
Ahead of the film s limited cinema release in 2020, we caught up with Paddy to chat about the madness of feature filmmaking, as well as Irish audiences obsession with crime thrillers, the future of cinema-going and the perfect post-lockdown popcorn movie.
20 of the Best Films of 2020
Updated / Monday, 28 Dec 2020
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Here s hoping we re back to all this in 2021
In the year that lasted a decade, the movies helped us to escape like never before. Here are some of our boltholes.
Uncut Gems
Sarah McIntyre says: It is rare that a film as relentlessly propulsive and uniquely gripping as
Uncut Gems comes along - probably about as rare and mesmerising as the uncut opal around which a lot of the action centres in this high-octane thriller. From acclaimed sibling filmmaking duo Josh and Benny Safdie, who were behind the excellent 2017 crime-drama
Uncut Gems similarly thrives on chaos and a mounting sense of stress that verges on panic-inducing. Adam Sandler puts in a career-best performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking Manhattan diamond district jeweller who funds his compulsive gambling habit with increasingly high-stakes dodgy dealings. An endlessly nerve-wracking, visceral assault of a movie.