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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered how one goddess could represent both passionate love and violent war at the same time? In ancient Mesopotamian mythology, few figures were as powerful, feared, and fascinating ...

Thirty years ago this week, a bomb dropped in the middle of American movie theaters, a (for its time) big-budgeted, ambitious act of Hollywood hubris that combined the work of three of of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elaine May's comedy Ishtar is remembered more for its tremendous financial failings than its actual content. Even causal cinephiles know the name Ishtar simply because of its infamous reputation as ...

Ishtar joins Smite on August 23 in patch 9.8 called Love and War. There will also be an Odyssey Soaring Isles event, new skins, and a community celebration calendar event. A new location called ...