Michael Adams is an author, journalist, TV producer and screenwriter with a broad and deep knowledge of film. His memoir Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies is about a year-long search for the worst movie ever made. His book Shining Lights is a profile of Australian Oscar winners, based on interviews with Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush.

Michael also contributed to The 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema, edited the AFI yearbook, and hosted Showtime's Movie Club and SBS's The Movie Show. For a decade Michael was reviews editor of the Australian edition of Empire and has written extensively on film and pop culture for Men's Style, Yen, Rolling Stone, Rottentomatoes.com and Movieline.com. He most recently worked as a writer and researcher for a TV show about Australian inventors for the History Channel.