Stars in Dublin for premieres

Two tantalising films will be premiering at Dublin’s Savoy Cinema over the next week.

Bryan Cranston, one of the busiest of characters actors, is in town next Friday for a Jameson Dublin International Film Festival screening of Ben Affleck’s much anticipated Argo.

On Tuesday, the ubiquitous Chris O’Dowd trots up the red carpet for an unveiling of The Sapphires, a charming comedy about an indigenous Australian soul group in the 1960s.

A limited number of tickets for Argo – a satirical drama involving the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis – are available from the festival website, www.jdiff.com.