A recent surge of musical documentaries as of late has included the likes of Spike Jonze helming “Beastie Boys Story” and Questlove making his directorial debut with “Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”(a film that recently earned the musician an Academy Award for Best Documentary.) Entering this flourishing subgenre of the documentary is “Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain” through Showtime.

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Sir Paul McCartney is a Beatles fan. While that might seem painfully obvious, it’s actually not where the music superstar found himself when he was actually in The Beatles. After all, it can seem like a gargantuan task to grasp the profundity of your seminal work while you’re in the middle of making it. And maybe, rather than the impossible task of reckoning with it, you just move forward as so many musicians have done.

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