Now streaming on Netflix is writer/director Jason Strause's mockumentary Teacher of the Year. Starring Matt Letscher and the always great Keegan-Michael Key of Key & Peele fame, the film debuted in April 2014 at the Newport Beach International Film Festival before playing the fall festival circuit and ultimately releasing to the general public this past May. While it hasn't found a huge audience, the pic currently holds a 100% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes which it earns by being a funny, smart, and heartfelt look at the American public school system.

Teacher of the Year is primarily set within the walls of the fictional Truman High School in California and revolves around Letscher's Mitch Carter who has recently been awarded California Teacher of the Year. The premise is simple: Mitch is a caring, intelligent, hard working teacher who must decide whether to continue in the profession he's passionate about or accept an educational lobbyist position in Washington D.C. that will immediately pay him almost triple his modest teacher salary. In a lot of ways, the pic feels like a feature length episode of The Office in its prime. On more than one occasion you will laugh, consider the message, and feel an emotional connection with a character in a single scene. Accomplishing all of the above is no easy task and it's the reason why I say Teacher of the Year is worth checking out.

This week's recommendation in hand, let's get to the Top 5:

Fantastic Four Coverage

It hurts me to see an overwhelmingly negative consensus hovering over Josh Trank's Fantastic Four. As someone who enjoyed Chronicle quite a bit and loved FF's new cast from the start, I wanted so badly to believe in this film. Never in my wildest dreams would I have guessed that Fox's dismal FF predecessors would receive more praise than Trank's. And yet, here we are.

If my despair hasn't caused you to tune out yet, I still recommend perusing our coverage of Fantastic Four if for no other reason than maybe it'll help you piece together an informed opinion of where the film goes wrong. Check out Matt's review, watch the cast play "Would You Rather?" with Perri, contribute to our "What Did You Think?" post, and remember better days with the 10 best Doctor Doom moments in comics history.

First Deadpool Trailer

I'm going to try and make you forget all about Fox's Fantastic Four disaster by immediately following it up with good news: the first red-band trailer for Tim Miller's Deadpool movie is everything that I could have asked for. Ryan Reynolds nails the character's humor, the action looks great, and the tone just feels right. February 2016 can't come soon enough.

First Zoolander 2 Teaser Trailer

Though it features no footage from the actual film, the first teaser trailer for Paramount's Zoolander 2 delivers. It almost feels like Mike Judge's criminally underrated Idiocracy in the way in which it depicts the evolution of human life as this beautiful, complex thing only to pull the rug out and suggest that we may actually be getting dumber as time goes on. Speaking of which, if you haven't watched Idiocracy in a while, it's probably a good idea to go ahead and do that as soon as possible.

Oscar Beat 2015: The Contenders So Far

With the fall festival season still ahead of us, the bulk of this year's Oscar contenders likely remain to be seen. That doesn't mean we can't do a quick recap of the heavy hitters that 2015 has given us so far, though, which is exactly what this week's Oscar Beat feature did. If Mad Max: Fury Road doesn't get any recognition from the Academy, it'll be a damn shame.

Study Confirms Hollywood's Diversity Problem

Unless you have your eyes glued to Fox News, you probably won't be surprised to hear that white males such as yours truly have it pretty good in comparison to other ethnicities and women in general. That in mind, it should come as no surprise that this fact also applies within the context of the film industry.

A report produced by the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at the University of California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism took a glance at the top 700 grossing movies between 2007-2014 and more or less already confirmed what we already know: that Hollywood has a major diversity problem. Click here to read the specific findings and know that we have to do a better job of recognizing the talents of those who don't look like we do.