"X-Men: Days of Future Past," "Maleficent," and the upcoming "Edge of Tomorrow," as well as "The Fault in Our Stars," all seem like summer films unofficially kicking off those 99 days of summer.

However, the actual summer solstice begins on June 21, so we will take a look at some of the other upcoming summer films that actually open after summer's start.  

June 27

"La Bare" (documentary), inspired by Channing Tatum's "Magic Mike," which peers into the historical lives and culture of one of the most popular male strip clubs in the world, La Bare Dallas. It is directed by Joe Manganiello ("True Blood," "Magic Mike").

"Snowpiercer," starring Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton, which is set in the future where a failed global-warming experiment has killed off the nearly all of the life on the planet, except for a few people who have boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe.

"Transformers: Age of Extinction" starring Mark Wahlberg. This latest Transformers film takes place several years after the last one. Wahlberg plays an automobile mechanic who, along with his daughter, discovers what brought down the Autobots and Decepticons.

July 2

"Deliver Us From Evil," starring Eric Bana, and Édgar Ramírez, about a New York police officer, Bana's Ralph Sarchie, who investigates a series of crimes. Sarchie has to join forces with a bizarre and unconventional priest Ramírez, who is adept in the rituals of exorcism that are needed to combat sudden possessions that are occurring in the city.

"Tammy," starring Melissa McCarthy and Susan Sarandon; after McCarthy's Tammy loses her job and discovers that her husband is having an affair, she decides to go on a road trip with her uninhibited and hard-drinking grandmother played by Sarandon.

July 11

"Boyhood" which is perhaps an epic film by Richard Linklater because it not only explores the life of a boy from age five-to-18, it actually documents the same actor growing up through his adolescence. Linklater documented and filmed the story over 12 years.

"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," the sequel to "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," in this latest installment, a growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar, becomes threatened by human survivors of the devastating virus that was unleashed a decade earlier. There is a fragile peace, albeit short lived because both sides are fighting against each other. In this new war, it will determine who will become Earth's dominant species.

July 25

"Magic in the Moonlight," the Woody Allen directed film starring Emma Stone and Colin Firth, is a romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle, and then personal and professional complications occur.

And, perhaps, Philip Seymour Hoffman's last film "A Most Wanted Man" about A Chechen Muslim who illegally emigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.

Aug. 1

"Get On Up," a biopic about James Brown, made by the people who brought "The Help" to the big screen.

"Guardians of The Galaxy," starring Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, the latest Marvel/Disney superhero film project.

Aug. 8

"Lucy," the action packed thriller science-fiction starring Scarlett Johansson.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

Aug. 15

"The Expendables 3," starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas, and Mel Gibson.

"The Giver," starring Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges.

Aug. 22

"Sin City: A Dame To Kill For," starring Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba. In this town, the most hard-boiled citizens that cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants.