--- title: Summer Movies 2015: Pop Music Stories From Every Era description: This summer there’s a music-based movie for every era canonical: https://time.com/3892042/pop-music-comes-to-the-summer-movie-set/ author: Isaac Guzman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-21T09:55:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:31:05.286Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Summer Movies 2015: Pop Music Stories From Every Era og:description: This summer there’s a music-based movie for every era og:url: https://time.com/3892042/pop-music-comes-to-the-summer-movie-set/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Summer Movies 2015: Pop Music Stories From Every Era twitter:description: This summer there’s a music-based movie for every era twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Pop Music Comes to the Summer Movie Set by [Isaac Guzman](https://time.com/author/isaac-guzman/) ## Isaac Guzman May 21, 2015 9:55 AM UTC by [Isaac Guzman](https://time.com/author/isaac-guzman/) ## Isaac Guzman May 21, 2015 9:55 AM UTC MUSIC \[This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.\] | IF YOU DIG THE | THEN YOU’LL ADORE | | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | ’50s | WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? Archival films and documents fuel this portrait of jazz diva Nina Simone (June 26 in theaters and on Netflix) | | ’60s | LOVE AND MERCY Paul Dano and John Cusack offer a dual portrait of Brian Wilson, the tormented genius behind the Beach Boys (June 5) | | ’70s | RICKI AND THE FLASH Playing hits from Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, Meryl Streep portrays a rocker mom making amends with her family (Aug. 7) | | ’80s | STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON Seminal gangsta rappers N.W.A. get their due in a biopic produced by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube (Aug. 14) | | ’90s | DOPE They may live in present-day California, but the geeky heroes of this coming-of-age flick are obsessed with ’90s hip-hop (June 19) | | ’00s | AMY Unseen footage and unheard tracks help this documentary explore Amy Winehouse’s tumultuous life and tragic death (July 10) | ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3892042/pop-music-comes-to-the-summer-movie-set/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3892042/pop-music-comes-to-the-summer-movie-set/"},"headline":"Pop Music Comes to the Summer Movie Set","datePublished":"2015-05-21T09:55:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:31:05.286Z","description":"This summer there’s a music-based movie for every era","url":"https://time.com/3892042/pop-music-comes-to-the-summer-movie-set/","keywords":["movies","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Isaac Guzman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/isaac-guzman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3892042/pop-music-comes-to-the-summer-movie-set/","name":"Pop Music Comes to the Summer Movie Set"}}]}] ```