A few years ago someone recommended I watch Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive and that went down so well I own a copy of the coat the lead character wears. When this person recommends I listen and when Danger 5, then on UK Netflix, was a suggestion I sat down and watched it transfixed. The work of Dinosaur, the successor to Alrugo (Italian Spiderman) and now the work of Dario Russo and David Ashby alone, the series is close to indescribable in its' brilliance.
The first devastating salvo of Dario Russo and David Ashby into an unsuspecting world came in the guise of Alrugo Entertainment and the staggeringly brilliant Italian Spiderman, with Tait Wilson, Will Spartalis and Boris Repasky. It started as a student film of a trailer for an apparent lost film but secured funding from the South Australian Film Corporation provided backing for ten webisodes, all around four minutes long - and spwaned a famous reaction GIF. These are stitched together to form a film of some 37 minutes, at which point "Alrugo" split up, Russo and Ashby instead going on to form Dinosaur and make the sublime Danger 5. So technically Italian Spiderman was unfinished, ending on a cliffhanger, but it doesn't matter - the thing could have gone on forever and never actually finished, which is part of the brilliance.
