These days, some indies just can't read all about it

March 20, 2008 An increasing number of films aren't getting reviewed in key U.S. outlets, damaging their slim chances at the boxoffice. Reviews from established media outlets are the only reason many low-budget films make it to theaters today, because they trigger word-of-mouth and DVD-ready quotes vital to the indies' true profit source: home video. 14, 16, 18 titles some weeks, many of them shot on video and playing for a single week in one theater on the way to video," says New York Post chief film critic Lou Lumenick, whose paper also skipped a review of the DGA Award-winning docu "Ghosts of Cite Soleil.

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