A veteran nerd with unbound enthusiasm for everything you love, Marshall Julius is a film journalist, blogger, broadcaster, quizmaster and collector of colourful plastic things. Also the author of Action! The Action Movie A-Z (Batsford Film Books, 1996), Vintage Geek (September Publishing, 2019) and, together with Howard Berger, the Rondo Award-winning Masters of Make-Up Effects (Welbeck Publishing, 2022) and, published this year, Making Monsters (Welbeck Publishing, 2025). Marshall lives in Norfolk, England with his wife Ruta, their hounds Merlin and Morgan, and about a million toys.