Leave it to an artist to get to the very essence of her art in one deft turn of phrase. It happened last night, at the Jacob Burns Film Center, in Pleasantville, New York (just fifty minutes from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty are stranded in the desert in the legendary 1987 box-office bomb Ishtar. (Photo: Columbia ...

“If all of the people who hate ‘Ishtar’ had seen it,” Elaine May famously said, “I would be a rich woman today.” On Wikipedia’s list of the biggest box-office disasters, with losses over $100 million ...

It’s a jolt, upon actually seeing “Ishtar,” rather than just relying on the dish, to realize that the movie that cost Elaine May her directorial career is among the most original, audacious, and ...

As singer Pat Benatar once noted, love is a battlefield. Such use of military words to express intimate, affectionate emotions is likely related to love’s capacity to bruise and confuse. So it was ...

Ben Sherlock is a writer, comedian, and filmmaker. Before working at Screen Rant, Ben wrote for Game Rant, Taste of Cinema, Comic Book Resources, and BabbleTop. In his spare time, Ben creates video ...

The 1987 film “Ishtar” has long held a cultural status much larger than that of just a single movie, as shorthand for the utter worst, an epochal flop with audiences and critics alike and a huge ...

One was considered among the biggest flops in motion picture history. The other may well become the top-grossing feature film of all time before it’s through. In so doing, "Avatar" is well on its way ...

Thirty-three years later, it's easy to see that Hollywood applied a double standard to the brilliant Elaine May. “If all of the people who hate ‘Ishtar‘ had seen it,” Elaine May famously said, “I ...