'Ishtar' rises from the ashes on Blu-ray

A Second Look: Time has healed the reputation of the once-notorious film 'Ishtar,' among several critical 'flops' that have proved to be misunderstood rather than misguided.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 financial bomb. Its air of failure has become all-encompassing, or as one of the songs featured in the movie put it, "Hello, Ishtar ...